The White House has asked the Department of Homeland Security to stop spending any money on a national alerting system, after an advisory committee reported that the system would likely not be widely used. An article in The Wall Street Journal says that $150 million was budgeted for the system, and is considered a second-generation system. However, the first-generation of the system isn’t being used by the public. Read the article, and also the committee’s report here.
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