The Governor of California,Jerry Brown yesterday signed into law a requirement that all Smartphones must offer a "kill switch"to make them completely useless to thieves. This is the first law of its kind in the entire country. There exists a rampant theft problem in California with the target being expensive smartphones that can easily be stolen and sold in the streets by thieves.In San Francisco,CA for example the district attorney's office says more than half of all robberies in the entire year of 2013 included the theft of a smartphone.
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