The Power and Peril of Emergency Alerts.
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The UK is set to test its Emergency Alert service, which will send a message to mobile phones and tablets at 3pm. The test has caused anger, with the government accused of acting like a nanny state. The test is being carried out in the wake of a botched alert in Hawaii in January 2018, which saw people cowering in shelters in the belief that World War III was about to start with intercontinental ballistic missiles on their way to wipe out the string of paradise islands in the Pacific Ocean.
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