Finland: Failures to deliver public warnings (Finnish)

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Today, Helsinki region was under drone alert with advice to stay indoors. It seems that the public warning system failed to notify a large number of users.

Not many information I could find but it seems you need to have latest version and always on location permissions to have a good chance of things working. However if you do, you'll probably notice battery drain and be spammed by low urgency alerts like traffic congestions.

The Finnish government recently agreed to finally adopt the standardized EU-Alert system by 2027 so there is hope for the future.

I'm thinking now, is there even a point of notifying everyone during a drone alert? With current amount of drones entering Finland, you are more likely to die in a car accident when you leave your house than to be killed by a drone

I guess it's better to know than to not know (citation needed).

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