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Also in Canada. Ontario would blast the province for technically “abducted” children that were typically joint custody disputes.

There was one exception case where children were actively harmed, but already murdered by the time the alert went out. I suspect police couldn’t kick down the door where they were murdered because they didn’t have a warrant/sufficient cause yet: right to peace and privacy in your home but not on your phones!

The alerts are 4G/5G only, so for a while I had a shortcut that would downgrade me to 3G at night.

Despite everyone questioning the system being labelled as “with the child abductors”, there are far fewer of these alerts. Either abductions are way down, or they’ve tightened up the criteria to blast the province.



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