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Okay, thanks. I got some quake alerts in Japan before, but I also thought that was a network message, not a specifically Google alert.
I'm just curious why Google is specifically taking the blame here, like if they took responsibility or announced intention to report on future quakes and then dropped the ball or something.
Google is not taking any blame. Google prepared an optional Earthquake alert system, it did not work, and they're claiming it did.
No one asked for such a system in the first place from them, and while it's nice they'd go about doing something like that in Earthquake prone parts of the world, if it doesn't work they probably shouldn't get up and start declaring "No no, it totally did work, dunno what those survivors are on about."
From the article (which you should read, it's quite short):
If you read between the lines of their 'earthquake system', it is obviously polling your phone on a very short and granular basis and pulling movement data, which is something no one seems to be talking about. This is the kind of data collection that pisses me off, and they get away with this by trying to pass this off as some sort of wonderful life saving system that I bet no one even knew they were contributing data to.
Gross, you have a point.
My Librem phone finally arrived (to a friend in the US), I guess I'm going to have to try using it the next time I'm there.