{"id":9715,"date":"2023-04-21T15:38:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T13:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/21\/how-the-uk-emergency-alert-system-test-has-been-years-in-the-making\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T15:38:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T13:38:19","slug":"how-the-uk-emergency-alert-system-test-has-been-years-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/21\/how-the-uk-emergency-alert-system-test-has-been-years-in-the-making\/","title":{"rendered":"How the UK emergency alert system test has been years in the making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the government\u2019s new phone alert system is tested this weekend it will mark the culmination of much learning from the technological successes and mistakes of other nations<\/p>\n<p>There have been accusations of nanny statism, warnings from domestic abuse charities over inadvertently alerting abusers of hidden phones, and even pet shops cordoning off smaller animals so they don\u2019t get frightened when the government\u2019s emergency alert system is tested on Sunday at 3pm.<\/p>\n<p>One thing is certain though: the UK government has taken its time in getting the system up and running, taking more than a decade to get to this first nationwide test.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/apr\/21\/how-the-uk-emergency-alert-system-test-has-been-years-in-the-making\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/67857ad2b64dd96a77e9411d2fef2bfac857d217\/0_2044_5259_3156\/master\/5259.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=044bdb120c023cbb4b84f3dcaf73e8f8\" title=\"How the UK emergency alert system test has been years in the making\" \/>When the government\u2019s new phone alert system is tested this weekend it will mark the culmination of much learning from the technological successes and mistakes of other nations<br \/>\nThere have been accusations of nanny statism, warnings from domestic abuse charities over inadvertently alerting abusers of hidden phones, and even pet shops cordoning off smaller animals so they don\u2019t get frightened when the government\u2019s emergency alert system is tested on Sunday at 3pm.<br \/>\nOne thing is certain though: the UK government has taken its time in getting the system up and running, taking more than a decade to get to this first nationwide test. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the government\u2019s new phone alert system is tested this weekend it will mark the culmination of much learning from the technological successes and mistakes of other nations There have been accusations of nanny statism, warnings from domestic abuse charities over inadvertently alerting abusers of hidden phones, and even pet shops cordoning off smaller animals &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/21\/how-the-uk-emergency-alert-system-test-has-been-years-in-the-making\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How the UK emergency alert system test has been years in the making<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9715"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}