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Met Police calls on tech firms to make stolen phones unusable
Key takeaways
- Yang Tian Getty Images The Metropolitan Police is calling on tech firms to make stolen phones harder to reuse and prevent criminals from profiting.
- Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has asked the home secretary for legislation to make phone companies publish data on stolen devices, and to enforce measures rendering handsets effectively unusable.
- The police force revealed on Thursday that it had started sharing data with Apple to build a "global picture" of what happens to stolen handsets, including whether they are being reconnected to a network.
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Yang Tian Getty Images The Metropolitan Police is calling on tech firms to make stolen phones harder to reuse and prevent criminals from profiting.
Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has asked the home secretary for legislation to make phone companies publish data on stolen devices, and to enforce measures rendering handsets effectively unusable.
The police force revealed on Thursday that it had started sharing data with Apple to build a "global picture" of what happens to stolen handsets, including whether they are being reconnected to a network.
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