Should Netflix and Hulu give you emergency alerts?

Shivaram Mysore shivaram.mysore at gmail.com
Sat Mar 9 20:35:18 UTC 2019


I personally believe apps should not be emitting generic emergency alerts.  Devices should - ex TV, mobile phone, etc. if one is watching Hulu, MLB, NFL, or any other app it should not matter as long as device is notifying the user.

/Shivaram
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> On Mar 9, 2019, at 12:27 PM, Seth Mattinen <sethm at rollernet.us> wrote:
> 
>> On 3/9/19 12:03 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
>> Automatically geo-locating indoor smart speakers and smart TVs is more difficult, but if advertisers can get geolocation information from AT&T, Amazon, Apple, Google, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, etc; why can't emergency alerts?
> 
> 
> There's no technical reason emergency alerts can't be geo located. But advertisers pay for it; emergency alerts aren't revenue generating.



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