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London's Metropolitan Police is calling on tech companies to make stolen phones unusable. The force is sharing data with Apple to build a global picture of stolen devices, aiming to prevent criminals from profiting from phone theft.
London's Metropolitan Police and Apple agreed to share stolen device identifiers to track phones that reconnect to mobile networks. The combined intelligence aims to disrupt criminal networks behind the city's phone theft epidemic. Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said the deal collapses the value of stolen devices.
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