Free navigation and traffic app Waze is said to be getting AMBER (America's Missing: Broadcasting Emergency Response) alerts in the U.S. For those who don’t already know, AMBER alerts are used to help find kidnapped and missing children. Your mobile device will go off when an alert is sent out, but typically in your local area only. AMBER alerts were created by law enforcement agencies as a source of notifying local residents to be on the lookout for missing children.
According to Waze, every ten minutes the app will look for new alerts. If you dismiss the alert however, you won’t see it again for the upcoming week. You will be able to see what the child looks like, a description of the child, his/her name and age, what they were last wearing, where they were last spotted, and any vehicle information suspected to have been involved in the abducting.
The update to Waze will be released sometime soon, but in the U.S. only. It seems like more and more companies are including this in their app as Facebook added it as well in the beginning of the year.
Source: Cnet
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