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Met police chief calls for law to make stolen phones ‘unusable bricks’
(www.theguardian.com)
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this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2026
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Because it’s the police’s responsibility to stop the snatchers in the first place? Not insist that other companies make up for their lack of results.
It’s not a COMPLETELY terrible idea, I know Apple already bricks stolen phones upon request, but at the owner’s expense. It’s still the people hired to solve the problem passing the responsibility on to others.