There was probably resistance in the federal government to local SMS warnings of severe weather.
Until the storm disaster in western Germany.
Berlin - Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) sees no more resistance to warning the population via SMS.
He announced this on Monday in the Bundestag in Berlin before a special meeting of the Interior Committee.
There was apparently resistance to local SMS warnings in the federal government before the storm disaster in western Germany.
Seehofer (CSU) confirmed that "not everyone has always been enthusiastic about the idea in recent months".
"But I have decided that we will do it and do it, there is absolutely no reasonable argument against it," he added.
The background to this is the severe weather catastrophe in western Germany.
After a severe weather catastrophe: Seehofer sees “no reasonable argument” against SMS warnings
The President of the Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Aid (BBK), Armin Schuster, had already commissioned a feasibility study in spring to warn by cell broadcasting.
According to reports, the head of the authority, which is subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior, also wanted to convince other departments - including the Ministry of Economics.
With cell broadcasting, a message is sent to cell phone users in a similar way to an SMS - to all recipients who are currently in the radio cell in question. Data protectionists consider this technology, which is already used in many other countries, to be relatively harmless.
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