Apple · Samsung · Google · Microsoft and others agree to standardize smartphone anti-theft tool

ByTony M 33

In order to confront the theft crime of a smartphone which is a problem around the world including the United States and Japan, in the United States, as measures against theft deterrence "Kill SwitchAlthough the introduction of anti-theft software to make it impossible to use through remote system and user setting when smartphone lost / stolen was being advanced,Major careers opposeBy doing so, the introduction was stalled.

However, on April 15, 2014, international organizations on mobile radio communications "Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA)"Is a smartphone anti-theft measure"Smartphone Anti-Theft Voluntary CommitmentWe announced that smartphone makers such as Apple · Samsung · Google · Microsoft and major American carrier companies participated.

Smartphone Anti-Theft Voluntary Commitment
http://www.ctia.org/policy-initiatives/voluntary-guidelines/smartphone-anti-theft-voluntary-commitment


"Smartphone Anti-Theft Voluntary Commitment" is to install a standard anti-theft tool on a smartphone manufactured or sold in the United States in July 2015 or to make it available for free, Apple · AT & T · Google · HTC America · Huawei Device USA · Motorola · Microsoft · Nokia · Samsung · T-Mobile · Verizon Wireless.

The anti-theft tool defined by CTIA "Remote personal information such as phone books, photos, and mails added after the purchase of a stolen smartphone can be deleted remotely" "Except when a situation requires a call or an emergency call, Lock smartphone and make it inoperable without password entry "" Can not reuse smartphone without permission of owner "" If owner of smartphone regains the stolen terminal, owner from cloud etc. It enables you to restore personal information "and it will be a function or software containing four.

To the announcement of CTIA, California State SenatorMark · Reno"Even if you introduce the anti-theft tool, it will not become a real solution to eradicate smartphone theft.In order to fight a theft crime including a smartphone, it is impossible to sell the stolen terminal at black market In other words, you should think about countermeasures to make it impossible to price a stolen terminal, "Remarkdoing.

ByDanilo.

In California, more than 50% of all theft crime relates to smartphones, and in 2012, 113 smartphones were stolen at a minutefactHas become clear.

One week before the announcement of CTIA, Korea is all domestic manufacturersMake "Kill Switch" on new smartphoneAnnounced that. With "Kill Switch" and "Smartphone Anti-Theft Voluntary Commitment", attention is paid to the future trend of theft damage of smartphone decreases.