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Smartphones are everywhere, but they're easy pickings for criminals.
Here in San Francisco, high-end handsets are specifically targeted in more than half of all robberies.
Now, a new law means that smartphones in California will be required to have a "kill switch" which will make them useless if lost or stolen.
At the touch of a button, all the data on the phone is erased.
It's hoped this will help deter thieves, though some think the law will create other problems.- easy pickings
things you get without working hard
- high-end
(of technology) more expensive and advanced than other products
- robberies
crimes of stealing from people by force
- at the touch of a button
very quickly and easily (used to describe things done using computers or technology)
- deter
make someone decide not to do something
