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Electronic devices evolve over time and have new features with each new model. In particular, the automatic emergency calls to the emergency number 911 have become a real plague for the service.

To talk about it, Marie-Andrée Giroux, Director of Business Development, Communications and CITAM Department, spoke to EnBeauce.com.

This automatic emergency call function is initially an initiative to request help quickly and easily, which at first glance seems like a good idea. However, there are several problems.

The fragility of the devices results in thousands of accidental emergency calls being made every day.

“This feature is far too easy to turn on, which means it calls us thousands of times a day, and it’s rare that an actual emergency arises.”

In the event that you involuntarily make a call, the organization asks the population not to hang up, in order to facilitate their work.

“Our only option is to call them back. So we’re asking people that if you accidentally make a call, please hold the line and just let us know. »

In addition to proposing to disable this feature of the phone, companies are now trying to reduce the vulnerability of their devices. This is particularly the case with Android.

“Android last week committed to making changes to its devices to reduce responsiveness. They realized this was a real problem for 911.”

In short: emergency calls are not always made by ipseity, which makes the work of service managers particularly difficult. Most notably, it poses a barrier to people who really need to call 911.

For more information on this topic, see the full video interview above.

Businessman Piero Coen, in a worn image.

Police on Friday broke into the luxury Old Santo Domingo complex in Managua on orders from the Nicaraguan regime and ordered the residential and office building to become “the property of the State of Nicaragua.” The office workers were alarmed when they saw the police patrols and shortly afterwards learned that the seizure of the assets of businessman Piero Coen Ubilla, manager of the Coen Group, one of the largest in the country, which operates the local subsidiary of the shipping company of Western Union remittances, as well as other agribusiness, livestock, and real estate businesses, including the expropriated building in which he owns shares. This is the first expropriation of a big business by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.

The agents also broke into his home in the Nicaraguan capital. In a statement released hours after the raids, Coen Ubilla confirmed that officers from the National Police and the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) had seized various properties registered in his name and that of his wife Jaffa Coen, a US citizen. The businessman denied being involved in any legal proceedings or being informed about the confiscation of his property.

However, while the raids were being conducted, a court case was being heard against de Coen, in which the state is appearing as “victim/offended”. The March 27 indictment was filed this Thursday, June 22. A secretly crafted trial. The court filing follows the logic used against other opponents who have suffered dispossession and been stripped of their nationality: the crime of “treason.”

“I can assure you that there is no crime that I can be accused of, let alone one that threatens my country or Nicaraguan society,” Coen said in the statement. “Since I assumed the position of President and CEO of Grupo Coen more than 15 years ago, I have dedicated myself to working hard to create jobs in Nicaragua and to nurture alliances and companies that work in every country in that we work have contributed to the development and well-being.” We work primarily in my beloved homeland of Nicaragua.

A propagandist had warned him

Coen’s seizure is the first recorded against a major businessman in Nicaragua, although the Ortega-Murillo regime has already made seizures state policy. For example, 322 Nicaraguans who were stripped of their citizenship and exiled had their material goods stripped and their bank accounts frozen. A pick-me-up that brings back the disastrous specter of expropriations in Nicaragua in the 1980s.

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Weeks before Coen was seized, regime spokesman William Grigsby said on his radio show that big businessmen were “somocistas,” “thieves,” “traitors,” and “cowards.” Until 2018, when massive social protests cornered the Ortega-Murillos, the government maintained a very close relationship with the private sector, dubbed “dialogue and consensus,” even enshrined in the constitution. But in the face of brutal police and paramilitary violence against Nicaraguans, businessmen broke the corporatist idyll and began to be harassed.

Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. JAIRO CAJINA (AFP)

Coen was one of the most visible businessmen at the April 2018 protests. He took part in the massive peaceful anti-government marches, carrying a blue and white flag to encourage the young protesters. Not surprisingly, Coen was the first to be the target of Grigsby’s attacks (a sort of harbinger of the Ortega-Murillo repression, as he announced the regime’s next targets during the hunt for opponents in 2021).

The propagandist also directly threatened businessmen Carlos Pellas, the owner of Grupo Pellas; Ramiro Ortiz Mayorga from the Promerica Group; Roberto Zamora Llanes, President of Lafise Bank; José Antonio Baltodano, owner of Café Soluble and Juan Bautista Sacasa Gómez, President of Banco de Finanzas. “They funded the purchase of weapons, the maintenance of roadblocks (barricades), a disinformation and smear campaign,” Grigsby accused.

Businessmen in exile and freed politicians warned that the confiscation of Coen heralds a new level of repression against big business. “This expropriation is a very clear negative signal for the economy of this country,” said Juan Sebastián Chamorro, a former presidential candidate and an official close to the private sector for years. “Investors are certainly looking at this with great concern, and it will lead to a decline in depleted foreign investment. I also do not rule out confiscations at companies. “It is likely that there are also economic interests behind staying with companies, in addition to real estate,” he complained.

The confiscations of private property began after the 2018 uprising, when hundreds of squatters dispatched by the ruling party occupied up to 9,800 manzana’s of land in eight departments, according to the Union of Agricultural Producers of Nicaragua (Upanic). 91% of this land belonged to the agricultural sector. Coen was one of those affected; The Tomatierras took about 1,500 manzanas belonging to the Coen group. In one of these, a 25-hectare plot was burned down to damage crops.

A private sector source warned that these virtual confiscations and attacks on big business owners would directly affect the legal certainty of doing business in Nicaragua. “There is no businessman who is certain that it will not be confiscated,” he said, recalling the intentions of the Ortega-Murillo regime against the private sector. Last March, the government stripped the legal status of the Supreme Council for Private Enterprises (COSEP) and the 18 chambers of commerce that made it up.

Félix Maradiaga, former presidential candidate-in-exile, said that private property is one of the cornerstones for socio-economic development in Nicaragua, a country where the private sector is the main employer. “The attack on the private property of business people who create jobs is undermining domestic and foreign investors’ confidence in investing. Those most affected are the poorest, who need decent and quality jobs. “Discouraging investment is one of the main reasons for the increase in poverty,” Maradiaga said.

Meanwhile, propagandist Grigsby’s threats persist: “The tycoons were rescued despite locking up their employees, José Adán Aguerri, former president of Cosep, and Luis Rivas, former manager of Banpro (…). They don’t punish later.” They say that one is the bad guy. They spared their lives because there was enough documentation and evidence of what they did in the military phase of the coup (…) In the hairstyle President Ortega did to the main leaders of the armed phase, the Somocista coup, he left her unharmed.

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Former US Vice President Mike Pence on Friday urged his Republican rivals to back the principle of a federal law that would limit abortion deadlines across the country, seeking to spearhead a debate favorite Donald Trump is said to have sidestepped is.

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Almost a year to the day after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn federal protections on abortion, Mr Pence, who is running for president in 2024, has challenged his competitors.

“The fact is, abortion laws in the United States are more aligned with China and North Korea than with western countries in Europe,” he claimed at the Road to Majority conference, attended by 3,000 evangelical conservatives in Washington.

“So I want to say it from the bottom of my heart. “Every Republican presidential candidate should support a 15-week abortion ban as a minimum national rule,” he added.

Mike Pence made no mention of his former boss, but his speech appeared to be addressed to Donald Trump, who sees the religious right as crucial to his 2016 victory and remains so in his current ambitions to return to the White House.

The former President delighted Conservatives by appointing three justices to the Supreme Court. The Temple of Justice returned on June 24, 2022 to the famous “Roe v. Wade” ruling, which guaranteed a federal right to abortion since 1973.

But anti-abortion advocates are stunned that Mr Trump refuses to publicly support a nationwide abortion ban despite boasting about his role in changing the Supreme Court’s position.

“Holiness”

Mr Trump also warned against a tendency to go too far to the right, hinting that anti-abortionists were to blame for Republicans’ weak results in the last midterm elections.

“Some (Republicans) who will speak on the same platform will say that … nothing should be done at the federal level,” Mr Pence said, alluding to the criticism of Mr Trump.

“Others will say that continuing to fight for life could lead to too strict laws in the States. Some even went so far as to blame Roe V. Wade’s cancellation for the 2022 election losses,” he said, echoing the word “life” that is the leitmotif of “pro-life” (anti-abortion) activists .

“But let me say it from the bottom of my heart: (…) Life is the cause of our time. And we cannot rest until we put the sanctity of life back at the heart of American law in every state in this country,” he said.

The Road to Majority conference brings together all major Republican candidates on the same stage for the first time, two months ahead of the first Republican presidential debate scheduled for August 23 in Milwaukee.

Mr. Trump is expected to speak at the conference on Saturday, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, also a Republican primary candidate, later on Friday.