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I am posting this older article because the Smartphone "Kill Switch" was recently brought up by Katherine Albrecht. They are selling this as "consumer protection" against theft/id theft, but she pointed out that this law would give the government the means to completely erase the contents of your smartphone at any time.

So if you are witness to a federal crime - say protesters in the street getting beaten up or even murdered by fed thugs - and a dozen people record the incident with their smartphones, the federal government could go in and erase the contents of any phone that was within the radius of that incident. And suddenly, the incident becomes hearsay and "never really happened."

They are selling this as protection for you... when it is really protection for THEM and their criminal enterprise.

1 posted on 04/22/2014 5:17:01 PM PDT by ponygirl
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Remember when ‘they’ told us that “LowJack” would help prevent car theft etc. When pointed out that it would allow the same people that tracked your stolen car to track every time you went to the beer joint, ‘they’ said “OH no! we wouldn’t do something like that! Honest” Yeah, right, bet your bippie someone had their fingers crossed.

Even “The Wire” and Tony Soprano figured out early that EZ Pass was just a good way to be tracked AND both ‘crews’ believed in the ‘burner phones’.


54 posted on 04/22/2014 6:07:56 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98 --"I would agree with you BUT that would make both of us wrong".))
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Smart GUN kill switch could become federal law.

Opps sorry - wrong thread/s


55 posted on 04/22/2014 6:13:46 PM PDT by crusher2013
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You mean a government who turned it’s massive spy machine on law abiding Americans, would do this?


56 posted on 04/22/2014 6:15:11 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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I’m for it if they place an adequate amount of a powerful explosive inside the phone and when it is stolen it can be remotely activated to negate the value of the phone and the thief .... no repeat offenders. The real value is that you wouldn’t have to do it for all, just a random number of the phones.


59 posted on 04/22/2014 6:46:46 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Watching MSM news readers pimping His Arrogance is like watching a dog eat its own vomit!)
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Android has this built in and I assume Apple does too. Are people really this stupid and uninformed?


60 posted on 04/22/2014 7:48:53 PM PDT by montag813
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This legislation reminds me of the “flashy thingy” in the Men In Black movies.

“May I have your attention please?”


63 posted on 04/22/2014 8:19:27 PM PDT by myheroesareDeadandRegistered
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On Thursday, US Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) introduced national legislation to require a way to disable smartphones remotely.

Democrats licking their chops at the thought of shutting down inconvenient people.

66 posted on 04/23/2014 2:48:58 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The PASSING LANE is for PASSING, not DAWDLING)
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It won’t apply to Obamaphones, so the yutes csn still co-ordinate their mob violence in their get-whitey-at-the-mall attacks.


68 posted on 04/23/2014 7:54:48 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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