Although plenty of smartphone users either embrace the Wireless Emergency Alerts system or at least don’t mind it, recent cases in Arizona, New York and California highlight two major flaws that national emergency-management officials have been working to improve since they began rolling out the system nationally in the spring of 2012.Find business contact information and Contact Us By Phone,
One is less-than-precise geotargeting. The other involves deciding whether a message is truly urgent enough to warrant an unsolicited scare.
“Anytime you’re dealing with alerts and warnings, there’s always a delicate balance on how much alerting is enough and how much is too much,” said Damon Penn, assistant administrator of the National Continuity Programs Directorate with the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
“The training that we give our message originators is that they really have to be able to meet three criteria to send a message (alert),” he said. “It’s got to be urgent. We don’t want to send a message out saying there’s a hurricane that’s going to hit in four days, because you’ve got other ways that you see that.
“It’s got to have adequate severity. We don’t want to send one out saying there’s a dog loose, which doesn’t really have a big effect on things. And then, it has to have certainty, because you don’t want to send a message and then have to say, ‘Sorry, not so fast.’ “
To receive the alerts, a user must have cellphone-carrier participation, the right type of phone and an updated operating system. Users are auto-enrolled, so the alerts simply start appearing on a device once all requirements are met.You can get these Data Center Facilities Features if you reach certain.
The origins of the Wireless Emergency Alerts system date to 2006 and the passage of the Warning, Alert and Response Network (WARN) Act.
“Congress kind of set this out and said, ‘Look, we want something to be rolled out in a way that the wireless industry would voluntarily agree to do this, but it’s also got to be a helpful complement to other existing alerting systems out there,’ “ said Brian Josef, assistant vice president of regulatory affairs with CTIA-The Wireless Association, a telecommunications-industry trade group.
In a moment we’ll be talking about the death of David Frost with the director Ron Howard, but first we turn to news that one government agency has an even more extensive collection of U.S.Center Facilities MileWeb Privacy Policy Privacy Policy. phone records than the National Security Administration, the NSA. That agency is the Drug Enforcement Administration. In a front-page article, The New York Times has revealed a secretive operation inside the DEA called the Hemisphere Project. Under this program, the DEA has access to records of every phone call over AT&T’s network dating back to 1987. That period covers a longer stretch of time than You can get these Exclusive Features Features if you reach certain.the NSA’s collection of phone records, which began under President George W. Bush. Some four billion call records are gathered to the DEA’s database every day. It’s unclear if other major phone companies are involved.
Unlike with the NSA, the DEA’s phone records are actually stored by AT&T. The U.S. government then pays for AT&T employees to station themselves inside DEA units, where they can quickly hand over data after agents obtain an administrative subpoena. The U.S. government says the program allows DEA agents to keep up with those in the drug trade who often switch phones. In a statement,Promotion Customized Dedicated Server are quality hardware and truly. Justice Department spokesperson Brian Fallon said that "subpoenaing drug dealers’ phone records is a bread-and-butter tactic in the course of criminal investigations" and that Hemisphere "simply streamlines the process."
The disclosure of the DEA’s Hemisphere program follows another major revelation involving the DEA and government surveillance. It was revealed last month a secretive DEA unit has used information taken from NSA wiretaps for cases unrelated to terrorism. The DEA has also provided classified intelligence obtained by the NSA and other sources to the Internal Revenue Service to help in their investigations of Americans.
Well, for more, we’re joined by Scott Shane, national security reporter for The New York Times. His front-page article, co-written with Colin Moynihan, appeared in Monday’s New York Times, "Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.’s."
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