DHS to track our every movement with a new mandatory spy app. disguised as a "wireless emergency alert" program.

Everyone will receive the "wireless emergency alerts" automatically, provided they have a newer smartphone or an older one with an up-to-date operating system. The WEA system is rolling out in Minnesota this week via the National Weather Service and Department of Homeland Security.

This nationwide mobile-alert system won't only transmit severe-weather alerts. Phone users also will get an Ambert Alert if a child goes missing. If the United States faces a nationwide crisis of some sort, the president can transmit a mobile alert that pops up automatically on phones across the country.
 
This mobile alert system is designed to flag handset users based on their current locations -- not where they live or work. Someone who lives in St. Paul but is visiting Cincinnati would receive the same alerts residents of that city receive.

"What the system does is actually follow you around wherever you are going," based on users' proximity to cellular towers, said Todd Krause, the weather-warning coordinator at the National Weather Service's office in Chanhassen. 

Smartphone users can choose not to receive Amber and weather alerts -- though public-safety officials urge them not to do the latter for their own protection -- but can't block presidential alerts.
http://www.twincities.com/ci_20931233/smartphones-now-set-up-automatic-alert-system-weather

Apple’s iOS 6 includes ‘government alerts’

The federal government is keen to implement a centralized system of control over all communications, with last year’s announcement that all new cell phones will be required to comply with the PLAN program (Personal Localized Alerting Network), which will broadcast emergency alert messages directly to Americans’ cell phones.

Although users can opt out of receiving the alerts from FEMA and the Amber Alert program, messages direct from the president will be mandatory.

“Consumers will have the option….to block all PLAN alerts except for those issued by the president,” the L.A. Times reported last year.

The PLAN program is part of the wider move on behalf of the Dept. Homeland Security to create a public environment dominated by a pervasive sense of fear and paranoia, a context in which the safe exercise of constitutional freedoms doesn’t normally thrive.

For the first time ever the feds will have a direct line to the millions of Americans who use cell phones and be able to use the messages to transmit whatever they like, whether that be genuine safety information, fearmongering about spurious terror alerts, or political propaganda.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/apples-ios-6-includes-government-alerts.html