Will Apple Customers be Forcibly Bombarded with Texts from Obama’s Campaign?

Related: Apple’s iOS 6 Includes ‘Government Alerts’.

Civil liberty commentators have expressed concerns that by signing up to the Personal Localised Alerting Network (PLAN), Apple have turned their phones into part of President Obama’s re-election campaign.

The un-hearalded changes to Apples iOS 6 mobile operating system give customers the option to opt in or out of receiving alerts from FEMA or the Amber Alert program, but not to messages directly from the president.

This raises the possibility of Barack Obama using the PLAN program to send campaign messages to all of Apples mobile device users, abusing the emergency alert program.

In compliance with the National Alerting Program (NAP), Apple’s devices will be able to receive important messages from the Wireless Emergency Alerts system which tells Americans statewide and nationally about serious weather or disasters.

CONTINUED at the Daily Mail.