Should Netflix and Hulu give you emergency alerts?

Fri Mar 8 23:45:48 UTC 2019

Just wait until your connected home speakers, 
smart smoke detector, smart refrigerator, smart 
tv, cell phone, IP streaming box, satellite 
receiver, cable box, home security panel and your 
Fitbit all go off warning you of the cancellation 
of an Amber alert at 1:30am, because the good 
folks at AlertReady.Ca and Pelmorex think that 
everything needs to go out at highest precedence, 
because, well,  think of the children!

At 05:22 PM 08/03/2019, Sean Donelan wrote:

>https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/08/tech/emergency-alert-netflix-hulu-streaming/index.html
>
>New York (CNN Business) The federal emergency 
>alert program was designed decades ago to 
>interrupt your TV show or radio station and warn 
>about impending danger — from severe weather events to acts of war.
>But people watch TV and listen to radio 
>differently today. If a person is watching 
>Netflix, listening to Spotify or playing a video 
>game, for example, they might miss a critical emergency alert altogether.
>
>"More and more people are opting out of the 
>traditional television services," said Gregory 
>Touhill, a cybersecurity expert who served at 
>the Department of Homeland security and was the 
>first-ever Federal Chief Information Security 
>Officer. "There's a huge population out there 
>that needs to help us rethink how we do this."
>
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