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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Christopher McKeon

Tech companies not doing enough to stop phone theft, say MPs

Tech companies are not doing enough to combat mobile phone theft, MPs have said as they urged the Home Secretary to take a “robust stance” on the issue.

In a letter to Shabana Mahmood, the Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee expressed concern that companies including Apple, Samsung and Google were not implementing technical measures that could “design out” phone theft.

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