AT&T Rolls Out iPhone Wireless Emergency Alerts

[wraggster]

AT&T has rolled out Wireless Emergency Alerts for iPhones (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2420547,00.asp). The alerts are for huge catastrophes (a Presidential Alert), for weather / natural calamities, and for AMBER alerts. One can turn off the latter two, but the Presidential alert cannot be turned off. The article mentions only 4S and 5 get this update. That said, I have a 4 and it got the update this morning. This was enacted in 2006, for those keeping track of such things. I, for one, do not care for this any more than I like the idea of them reading my communications to begin with. Oh, I'm sorry, the "metadata" from my communications."

http://apple.slashdot.org/story/13/06/16/1748258/att-rolls-out-iphone-wireless-emergency-alerts