Pennsylvania Legislators Join Fight for Smartphone "Kill Switch"
Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter joined top prosecutors Monday in San Francisco and New York in a nationwide initiative to thwart smartphone thefts by rendering the devices useless after a robbery, the Times Leader reports.
The initiative, Secure Our Smartphones, brought New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to Philadelphia to make the announcement with Nutter and Kane. The group was begun in June by Schneiderman and San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon with the hope of successfully pressuring the smartphone industry to develop a technological solution, such as a “kill switch” for stolen phones, that would make smartphones inoperable after they are stolen.