NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study
Rich Kulawiec
rsk at gsp.org
Wed Jan 6 09:39:52 UTC 2021
On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 09:08:06PM -0600, Billy Crook wrote:
> Then again how many people would benefit from adding this to online
> streaming, but don't already have cellphones that have emergency alert
> popups that get their attention. The kind of people who don't have
> smartphones are going to be the ones still watching bunny ears television
> anyway.
I've worked in science and technology for a long time, and I've chosen not
to have a smartphone. Not that I have to justify this decision to you,
but: (1) I spend a fair amount of my time in environments with poor/no
connectivity (2) I participate in activities that are likely to result
in the destruction or loss of the phone and (3) I use my phone...for
phone calls and the occasional text. So spending $40 rather than $800,
avoiding the morass of privacy/security issues involved in a smartphone,
and maximizing available battery life seems like the best move.
I know others who've made the same decision for similar reasons.
---rsk
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