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Blaring sirens on smartphones to warn Australians of major disasters under emergency alerts overhaul (www.theguardian.com)
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[-] Paragone@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

I read about a fuckup in the 911-phone-system in some jurisdiction, some years ago:

they had blaring-siren hammer any phone which dialed 911, & someone who was hiding-from a house-invader dialed it, .. thereby blowing their concealment.

PLEASE get them to understand that they NEED to make their alarm-system NOT override any emergency-services-hotline call, for the sake of people in such situations.

It wouldn't kill many people per year, but I'd rather have that be none, than few, right?

( I'm not Aussie, & have zero clue who'd need to be informed of the risk )

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