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Title    California Senate Approves Smartphone 'Kill Switch'
Date    Friday May 09 2014, @12:52PM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the what-could-possibly-go-wrong? dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/05/09/104221

AnonTechie writes:

The California Senate on Thursday voted to approve a state measure requiring smarter anti-theft security on smartphones, reversing its decision last month to reject the bill. The proposal, introduced by State Senator Mark Leno and sponsored by George Gascon, San Francisco's district attorney, requires a so-called kill switch (which would render a smartphone useless after it was stolen) on all smartphones sold in California. The bill passed with a final count of 26 to 8 in favor. It now requires approval from the California State Assembly and, eventually, California Governor Jerry Brown, who could review the bill around late August.

Links

  1. "AnonTechie" - http://soylentnews.org/~AnonTechie/
  2. "voted to approve" - http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/08/with-a-change-of-heart-california-senate-approves-smartphone-kill-switch-law/
  3. "decision last month to reject the bill" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/04/25/1336230&tid=13

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