Met Police chief urges tech companies to block stolen phone reactivation

Summary

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley is urging tech giants like Apple to make stolen phones unusable to combat rising phone theft in London. He reports that Apple has made engineering progress in preventing factory resets of stolen devices, with data showing most recently stolen phones in London are not being reactivated. Rowley is also calling on the home secretary to introduce legislation requiring companies to publish data on stolen devices, aiming to reduce criminal profits from phone theft.

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