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Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old (www.wired.com)
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

In Switzerland there is an app called Alertswiss which gets published by the government. They use it for critical alerts and you can also use it to see open warnings and where in the country there might be stuff happening.

Just do the same @California

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Not that I do not agree, but if you think you'll be able to get Americans, who already do not trust the government, to download an app on their phones made by the government, well I have a bridge to sell you.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's amazing how these very unregulated tech companies that have been proven time and time again to steal user data and mess up have this blind trust from the public.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

They very much do not. No one trusts them. But they have other value that people are not willing to forego.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Also, have you seen any of the official government websites? They're buttgarbage. Go renew an amateur radio license online and tell me if anyone would intentionally install software designed like that on their devices.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The UK's won several awards for design. It's very easy to use. It would be nice to see something like that for the US.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

It's open source.
just deploy it verbatim, and change your laws and taxes to work with what the web services do!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My city of only 20k people in Texas has a similar app. Not sure what's going on in California