The government is talking about the kill switch, they took the vote and now it's going to become law. When you say like that it doesn't sound very good for anyone. But relax the kill switch in this law is about smartphones.
The state of California has proposed a bill of the smartphone kill switch and the measure has passed the senate with 27 against 8. Overwhelming victory for the kill switch bill. Only thing left now is for the Governor to sign the bill and it becomes state law.
Smartphones are big business these days, practically everyone has one and a lot of them are not cheap, some of them are very expensive. Number of stolen smartphones is on the rise year after year, they are not that hard to steal and once it's gone, there is no chance your going to find it.
Considering phones today are much more then just a list of your contacts. They have a number of apps that hold valuable information about you and about your business. Once smartphone is stolen or lost this kind of information is worth more money then the actual phone, so the kill switch in these circumstances makes sense.
Huge smartphone manufacturers like Apple, Samsung, HTC and others have already agreed to implement kill switch in your smartphone. Guess this technology is ready for the market, only thing left is to see what kind of an impact it will have for ordinary people and will tho number of stolen smartphones finally go down.
Source cnet.
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