Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., is worried about smartphone...
Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., is worried about smartphone theft. Franken, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Privacy Subcommittee, wrote FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler about his concerns in a Jan. 21 letter, which Wheeler answered April 11, released Friday (http://bit.ly/QtDEX5). Franken said…
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there’s no “silver bullet” fix to the problem, suggesting strengthening a stolen-phones database. Franken has contacted CTIA about the use of kill-switch technology and the Justice Department about enforcement actions, he said. Wheeler agreed with Franken that the issue is “a global concern” and laid out the agency’s recent steps to address the problem and the state of the stolen-phones database.