{"id":6039,"date":"2014-04-25T07:34:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=6039"},"modified":"2014-04-25T07:34:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T14:34:00","slug":"california-senate-rejects-kill-switch-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=6039","title":{"rendered":"California Senate Rejects &#8216;Kill Switch&#8217; Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By a narrow margin, the California State Senate rejected a bill that would have mandated kill switches be installed in cell phones and tablets.<\/p>\n<p>Generally speaking, I oppose Nanny State regulations. For example, we don&#8217;t have kill switches in our cars, which is also a technology that&#8217;s widely available. If your mobile gizmo is stolen, the technology exists to instantly lock it, rendering it useless. Manufacturers and cellular providers could implement this feature automatically, primarily as a courtesy for their customers. They choose not to. Therefore perhaps a law that puts people over profits may be in order.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/calif-state-senate-shoots-down-kill-switch-legislation\/\" target=\"_blank\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By a narrow margin, the California State Senate rejected a bill that would have mandated kill switches be installed in cell phones and tablets. Generally speaking, I oppose Nanny State regulations. For example, we don&#8217;t have kill switches in our cars, which is also a technology that&#8217;s widely available. If your mobile gizmo is stolen, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wambooli-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6040,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6039\/revisions\/6040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}