SF DA initially pleased in antitheft testing of Apple's iOS 7 Activation Lock, Samsung's LoJack
Last week, Gascón and New York's Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced efforts to test the two company's new security technologies to "see if they stand up to the tactics commonly employed by thieves" in an program that partnered with experts from the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center.
In a followup report by the San Francisco Examiner, Gascón said he was "very optimistic that they came and were willing to share their technology with us."
He also noted that neither Microsoft's Windows Phone nor Google's Android had similar technology to demonstrate for their own mobile platforms. Stealing smartphones is a big business, with the US Federal Communications Commission stating that one third of robberies nationally involve a cellphone. In tech savvy San Francisco, the figure is closer to half of all robberies.
