California's smartphone kill switch bill has been signed into law

The bill, SB 962, was created by California state Senator Mark Leno along with San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón, who's been a staunch advocate of anti-theft measures for phones. Ahead of the bill, Gascón urged cellphone makers — including Apple and Samsung — to make stolen smartphones more of a headache for thieves, going so far as to hire security experts to try and bypass the built-in security measures to illustrate that smartphone makers weren't doing enough. An earlier version of the legislation also included tablets, and any other handheld "advanced mobile communications device," language that was stripped out in favor of targeting only smartphones.

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countercharge said:

I just came here to post this but I see you already have beat me to it. So, anyone wanna speculate as to how this can be defeated? Obviously we don't know yet whether this will be a hardware or a software issue. Hopefully software. I think we need to start petitioning and going door to door to stop this thing before it becomes law. **** California. Always trying to ram their nanny state bull**** down everyone's throats.

I just created a petition about this:

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pe...law-mandating-smartphone-kill-switch/TN8Nxrtv

Please sign and share!

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