If a country tries to hide vital data about a potential pandemic, Dr Chan can override national sensitivities and ring the alarm bells.
Since the study didn't find any change in daytime temperatures, it looks like we don't have to ring the global warming alarm just yet.
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For example, it can find information about traffic and tell the user's alarm clock to ring later if the highways aren't jammed.
It is a result that will ring alarm bells for the party leadership - Delaware is one of a handful of states where the Republicans must win if they are to seize control of the Senate, he adds.
For the Conservatives, shadow finance minister Paul Davies said the report should "ring alarm bells".
The findings should "ring alarm bells" for users, privacy campaigners said.
Alarm bells started to ring at the firm's headquarters when a Cadbury-financed study by the University of Sussex and the University of Accra found that the average production of a cocoa farmer had dropped to 40% of potential yield, and that the children of cocoa farmers did not want to work in the family business any more.
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The country's debt ratio the ratio between external debt and hard-currency income stands at a comfortable 75% or so, well below the 100% level that starts to ring alarm bells.
Spotting crises in advance is not easy witness the central bank's own failure to ring alarm bells as house prices soared.
The Labour leader accused Mr Cameron of "consistently ignoring warnings" about his director of communications and said people would have expected "very loud alarm bells" to ring in Mr Cameron's mind following allegations in the New York Times.
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