SACRAMENTO — The state Senate on Thursday revived once-dead legislation mandating kill-switch devices in new smartphones after tech titans Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. dropped their opposition.
The bill’s author, Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, made several changes to SB 962 after the original version failed by two votes in an April 24 Senate floor vote. The legislation now applies only to smartphones, not tablets or simpler phone-only devices, manufactured and sold in California after July 2015. The bill would now also require new phones to prompt users to enable the remote-disabling device during activation, a slight, but important, change from previous language mandating the kill switch work by default from the moment of sale.
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