I9300TV Cellphone Carriers Get Blame For Smartphone Thefts

However, authorities say the database is insufficient partly because a substantial amount of phones end up overseas. Once the phones are overseas the database has no effect on them. Also its fairly easy to change the indentifying numbers.According to law enforcement, the larger problem is with the GT-I9300 cellphones’ carriers and makers.

“The carriers are not innocent in this whole game. They are making profit off this,” said Cathy L. Lanier, chief of the police department of the District of Columbia. In D.C., a record 1,829 cellphones were taken in robberies last year.

Some manufacturers and cellphone carriers say they have taken steps to discourage thefts. Verizon says it has its own database which performs similar functions to the previously mentioned database. Apple’s "Find My iPhone" app is able to locate an iPhone and erase its data. However, the app doesn’t work if the thief turns off the phone and disconnects it from the Internet.

Google doesn’t provide any service for locating stolen Android phones although there are some apps on Google Play which provide a service that locates stolen I9300TV phones."The intimate details of our lives are on our cellphones, including matters that go far beyond what the police may be investigating and have any interest in," said Howard Simon, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida.ssdEfg7

Two bills (HB 797 and SB 846) submitted this legislative session sought to put into law that A7100 cellphones couldn't be searched without a warrant. They both passed through committees, but didn't make it to either floor.Smallwood was arrested and charged in a January 2008 convenience store robbery.But that was before the advent of mobile phones, many like "interactive, computer-like devices," and not "static, non-interactive container(s)," the Florida Supreme Court opinion said.