Is that your phone? It just might be Big Brother
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National Emergency Alert System Set To Launch In NYC
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A new national alert system is set to begin in New York City that will alert the public to emergencies via cell phones.
It’s called the Personal Localized Alert Network or PLAN. Presidential and local emergency messages as well as Amber Alerts would appear on cell phones equipped with special chips and software.
The Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Emergency Management Agency said the system would also warn about terrorist attacks and natural disasters.
Verizon and AT&T, the nation’s largest cell phone carriers, are already on board. Consumers would be able to opt out of all but those presidential messages.
For now, the alerts are capable on certain high-end cell phones but starting next year, all cell phones will be required to have the chip that receives alerts.
By the end of the year, the new system will be in place in New York City and Washington and in cities around the country by the end of 2012.
Bloomberg made the announcement about the new system Tuesday morning with FCC chairman Julius Genashowski and other federal and local officials.
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Related article: "The messages, including urgent blasts from the President, information on imminent threats and Amber Alerts about missing children, will supercede all other phone traffic so they won't be stalled or delayed." nydailynews 5-9-11
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re: the "PLAN"
Mandatory cell phone chips and no opting out of "presidential messages". Federal and local levels of government and the largest cell phone carriers in the nation, representing the private sector...all coming under the direction of the FCC and FEMA...to "alert the public"...
...and brainwash and potentially track them. The reality is, once Big Brother gets that "special chip" into your phone, there is no telling where this PLAN might eventually go.
It does not get any more Orwellian than this. Definitely be "alerted". Rev. 18:4
update: 11-9-11 alert system test date announced
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National Emergency Alert System Set To Launch In NYC
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A new national alert system is set to begin in New York City that will alert the public to emergencies via cell phones.
It’s called the Personal Localized Alert Network or PLAN. Presidential and local emergency messages as well as Amber Alerts would appear on cell phones equipped with special chips and software.
The Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Emergency Management Agency said the system would also warn about terrorist attacks and natural disasters.
Verizon and AT&T, the nation’s largest cell phone carriers, are already on board. Consumers would be able to opt out of all but those presidential messages.
For now, the alerts are capable on certain high-end cell phones but starting next year, all cell phones will be required to have the chip that receives alerts.
By the end of the year, the new system will be in place in New York City and Washington and in cities around the country by the end of 2012.
Bloomberg made the announcement about the new system Tuesday morning with FCC chairman Julius Genashowski and other federal and local officials.
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Related article: "The messages, including urgent blasts from the President, information on imminent threats and Amber Alerts about missing children, will supercede all other phone traffic so they won't be stalled or delayed." nydailynews 5-9-11
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re: the "PLAN"
Mandatory cell phone chips and no opting out of "presidential messages". Federal and local levels of government and the largest cell phone carriers in the nation, representing the private sector...all coming under the direction of the FCC and FEMA...to "alert the public"...
...and brainwash and potentially track them. The reality is, once Big Brother gets that "special chip" into your phone, there is no telling where this PLAN might eventually go.
It does not get any more Orwellian than this. Definitely be "alerted". Rev. 18:4
update: 11-9-11 alert system test date announced
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