This Plan To Create A Centralized Database Of Cellphones Can't Possibly Go Wrong

    A lot of smartphones means a lot of smartphone thefts! The plan to fight this, devised by police departments, the FCC and the wireless industry: "the creation of a central database to track stolen phones and prevent them from being used again." I can only think of 7,000 reasons this could be a terrible idea, and the ineptitude of the federal government on things like this is only one of them.

    Matt Buchanan
    by Matt Buchanan

    BuzzFeed Staff

    This Plan To Create A Centralized Database Of Cellphones Can't Possibly Go Wrong

    nytimes.com

    A lot of smartphones means a lot of smartphone thefts! The plan to fight this, devised by police departments, the FCC and the wireless industry: "the creation of a central database to track stolen phones and prevent them from being used again." I can only think of 7,000 reasons this could be a terrible idea, and the ineptitude of the federal government on things like this is only one of them.