New York Attorney General Eric Schneidermanreiterated, on Monday, his commitment to pressuring smartphone manufacturers to install kill switches that can remotely disable smartphones in an effort to make them worthless to thieves and black market smartphone resellers.
Standing alongside New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio at a press conference in the New York Attorney General’s office in New York City, Schneiderman stated, in no uncertain terms, that adopting an industry-wide kill switch allowing users to cancel a phone “like a credit card” was necessary in order to stem the “epidemic of violent street crime involving the theft of mobile devices.”
