20
Jun
2014
By Calvin at 08:10 GMT, 11 years ago
A new report indicates U.S. law enforcement officials will announce today (19 June 2014) that Google and Microsoft will add “kill switches” to their operating systems for mobile devices. The kill switch is meant to serve as an anti-theft measure as it enables consumers to remotely lock smartphones and delete the data off of them if they are stolen. All three major producers of smartphone operating systems had been resisting calls to include the technology in their operating systems until last year when Apple finally cracked and included a kill switch in iOS 7. Since then, Verizon has added a kill switch to Samsung devices sold on their network.
TCPW Comment: At last!
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