We’ve seen several false claims about the upcoming emergency alert test. Here we explain why the message won’t allow the government to access your personal data.
The post claims “This new emergency alert that will be deactivating all of our phones on the 23rd of April to test it works?!? This will keep your phone deactivated until you follow the instructions they plant into our software and any other control they want over us!! Which then, they will have access to your locations, mobile data and a lot more than you don’t even know yourself!”
While the alert will behave like a notification that you need to acknowledge before you can use other features, it will not give the government or any other entity access to your location or any other data.What is the emergency alert?government service will warn people via their phones or tablets if there’s a nearby “danger to life”, for example in the case of severe flooding, fire or extreme weather.
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