AMBER Alert App for the iPhone

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Jonathan Zdziarski, iPhone developer and data forensics expert, has teamed up with AMBER Alert to create an iPhone app for receiving detailed AMBER alerts via iPhone. Ars talked to Zdziarski about why he wrote the app and how it can also be used to report sightings in a faster and more reliable manner to law enforcement.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/02/...-for-iphone.ars

Thought this was pretty interesting and quite productive. Not much is discussed about the back end (ie: where the GPS data is sent and how quick law enforcement can get ahold of it) but i think if every iPhone user had one of these it just may make a difference.