Jean-François MezeiEveryone in Québec just wokebn up by amber alert for kinapped kid in Trois-Rivières. Really wish they woudl geofence those alerts better.
Area even includes Îles de la Madeleine.
Xavier Jacques Côté@jfmezei I wish there is also a different category/sound for amber alerts.
The “end of the world” alarm sound should be reserved to a situation where an immediate action is needed like a nuclear plant explodes, a hydro dam burst, tornado, earthquake, …
Over the time, people will be desensibilized to that sound. The day an immediate evacuation was needed, it’s will be sad to learn pple have being harm/killed because they have ignored the alert due to that miscategorization.
@xavsworld The alert Canada CHOSE is the unblockable "presidential alert", and canadian carriers got Apple to disable the alert management menus. There is a separate alert for ambert alerts which can be disabled in USA. But tgis was a conscious decision in canada to make it impossible to disable alerts.
@jfmezei so I guess the problem are the carriers. Or maybe the CRTC can force the carriers/phone providers to let the customers chose the level of alert.
But even with the capability to let the end-users choose to enable/disable the AMBER alerts, I still believe the sound played should be different, simply to allow to differentiate the level of urgency.
And as you have said in your original post, to better geo localization of the alert.
@xavsworld It was the #CRTC that chose to ONLY use presidential alert and forced it on carriers.
https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2017/2017-91.htm
While it doesn't specify "presidential alert", it is the only one defined that cannot be overriden. ( Designed for catastrophic events such as Mars attacking USA).
Image is from is from FCC: (FCC uses "National alerts" instead of "presidential alerts".
https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/wireless-emergency-alerts
@jfmezei thanks for the insight. The CRTC decision, or non-decision due to the inability to get a consensus over the type of alerts, is a sad thing to read.
I really hope the CRTC had since made the efforts to get a list of alert types since that time.