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Title    California Rejects Phone "Kill Switch" Law
Date    Friday April 25 2014, @02:34PM
Author    Woods
Topic   
from the my-favorite-kind-of-switch dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/04/25/1336230

AnonTechie writes:

The California Senate on Thursday voted down a state measure that would require smarter anti-theft security on smartphones. The bill, introduced by State Senator Mark Leno and sponsored by George Gascon, San Francisco's district attorney, would have required a so-called kill switch which would render a smartphone useless after it was stolen on all smartphones sold in California. The proposal needed 21 votes to pass in the 40-member chamber. After debate on Thursday morning at the Capitol, in Sacramento, it fell two votes short of passing, with a final count of 19 to 17 in favor.

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  1. "AnonTechie" - http://soylentnews.org/~AnonTechie
  2. "voted down a state measure" - http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/california-senate-rejects-smartphone-kill-switch-law/

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