Proposed California Law Would Mandate Smartphone Kill Switch

alphadogg writes "Kill-switch technology that can render a lost or stolen smartphone useless would become mandatory in California under a new bill that will be proposed to the state legislature in January. The bill will be introduced by Senator Mark Leno, a Democrat representing San Francisco and neighboring towns, and George Gascón, the district attorney for San Francisco. Gascón has been spearheading a push by major law-enforcement agencies across the U.S. for more to be done to prevent smartphone theft. The proposed law could reach well beyond the borders of California. Because of the difficulty and added cost of producing handsets solely for sale in California, it could serve to make kill-switch technology a standard feature on phones sold across the U.S."

Comments

Accessory before the fact

[RichMan]

Current manufactures should be charged as accessories before the fact for all cell phone thefts and any personal assaults related to that for not enabling this feature a long time ago.

Re:And the other uses for this are?

[geekoid]

" so many people who were in touch with what is going on in our country and in our world."
i.e. Confirmed your bias.