If all smartphones and tablets came with a Kill Switch that could render them inoperable remotely, it could save consumers $2.5 billion per year in the U.S.
That's according to William Duckworth, a statistics professor at Creighton University. His research found that consumers spend around $500 million replacing devices that have been stolen per annum.
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The "kill" needs to be reversible. It's great to be able to kill a phone if it is lost/stolen and never recovered. However, it needs to be possible to "unkill" a phone if it is lost/stolen and then returned to it's legal owner. Perhaps a method that the carrier or manufacturer can run once the legal owner proves that the phone is back in their possession.
Quote: In addition to saving lives, the common sense theft deterrent features we have been advocating for will also help save consumers money," Gascon and Schneiderman said in a statement about the study, reports HuffingtonPost.
yeah i could see having to replace thousands of phones every year due to a kill switched being wrongly used rendering it useless would cost money???
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Truly an idiot wrote this article as NO ONE WILL SAVE MONEY simply by being able to "Kill" the device...............ONE STILL HAS TO CAPITALIZE ON THE INSURANCE AND PAY A DEDUCTIBLE regardless if the device is "usable".
