On Sun, 15 Oct 2017, valdis.kletni...@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.
