[196294] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: California fires: smart speakers and emergency alerts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG)
Mon Oct 16 05:28:01 2017
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Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2017 19:52:06 -0700
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
From: "Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: "Aaron C. de Bruyn" <aaron@heyaaron.com>
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Someone do a kickstarter already. I'll contribute. ;)
-A
On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 7:09 PM, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Oct 2017, valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 18:50:51 -0700, Joe Hamelin said:
>>>
>>> I would think that Amazon knows where my Echo is since it's the same IP
>>> that I order (way too much crap) from.
>>
>> It knows the usual delivery address. That's not necessarily the same
>> thing.
>>
>
> First, need to figure out if any smart speaker manufacturers have any plans
> to add emergency alerts to their product. Only need to solve the other
> problems if they do, otherwise it doesn't matter.
>
>
> While VOIP phones needed exact addresses for 9-1-1 purposes, emergency
> alerts are rarely as specific as a city or county. An exact
> longitude/latitude would be nice to have, but probably not necessary for
> most emergency alerts. All the smart speakers ask for the user's location,
> at least a zip code, during the installation. And they seem to use the
> typical advertising network IP address geolocation.
>
> It would be creepy if an emergency alert was too targetted. It may be
> better to keep it larger than a mile radius, rather than a single house.
