A New York congressman is proposing legislation that would require cell phone companies to implement kill switches in smart phones.
Supposedly, it would increase safety from theft, but opponents of the bill say that it could subject people to hackers or terrorists.
Hackers, terrorists…or our government.
When you are at war, one smart first move is to eliminate your opponents ability to communicate with each other. This legislation should make us all uneasy that communication between Americans can be seriously hindered in a time when our government is working to hard to get rid of our Second Amendment and as well as the rest of the Constitution.
Many see civil war on the horizon. Has the fighting not already begun?
A New York congressman is proposing legislation that would require kill switches to be installed in smart phones. The bill comes under the pretense that it would increase safety from theft, but opponents of the bill say that it could subject people to hackers or terrorists.
Follow TLR on Google+California and Illinois state lawmakers are considering similar legislation, proposing bills to require kill switches in phones, while mobile carriers are opposing the mandatory changes, allegedly because doing so might cut into sales of replacement phones.
New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton said ”The elephant in the room is all about corporate greed, profit, that’s what this is all about – they’re making 30, 40 billion dollars a year on new phone sales,” he said.
The cell phone industry is disputing that, claiming that it has to do with security issues. Hackers could misuse the switches. And Apple has already introduced security features such as “Find my iPhone” as well as “Activation Lock,” which can make a phone useless when stolen.
The government has absolutely zero business interfering with the private property of our citizens. Smartphone kill switches have nothing to do with government security and so there is no reason for this type of legislation considering that private companies already offer this feature voluntarily. This is merely another attempt at an unconstitutional power grab by the government in our private lives and our commercial transactions.
Why can’t you just get a kill switch if you want one? Why does everything have to be legislated? Why is it any of the government’s g*****n business at all?
why do you think i use disposable cell phones and credit cards ??
I know that the government can track my phone. Somebody is having a lot of fun since I rarely go out. They are welcome to meet me next time that I go out and they can pay for my groceries.
the only thing i attack is the left wing anti American policies ! I do not care for them and if they do not like it they can shove it where the sun does not shine !IF liberals hate America so damb much they should leave we are not and we are gonna fight their communist agendas ever step . !
IF YOU ARE AFRAID OF SOMEONE FINDING YOU STOP USEING PHONES AND CARDS. REGARDS, A RETIRED MARINE.
They need to put a kill switch on most of their legislation and give: we the people, direct access to that switch 🙂
let me see…… would this be a democrat congressman perhaps? need a kill switch on him. 🙁
I’ve set my cell phone from stun to KILL!!
You know perhaps this technology is too much for the world to handle, and we should all go back the LAN lines and loose the cell phones there would be less car accidents and no more snooping from governments,
You know perhaps this technology is too much for the world to handle, and we should all go back the LAN lines and loose the cell phones there would be less car accidents and no more snooping from governments,