Editing Kill switch (section)

===Smartphones===
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In [[smartphones]], a kill switch is a security feature that allows the phone's owner to remotely render the smartphone inoperable if it is lost or stolen. From 2015 this feature is legally required in [[California]] for smartphones.<ref>{{cite news
  |title=The Smartphone Kill Switch Explained
  |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/08/27/the-smartphone-kill-switch-explained
  |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref> There are also ''hardware kill switches'' on some phones, such as [[PinePhone]], where the user can, by moving a hardware switch inside the phone, disable hardware like the camera, microphone, Wi-Fi or LTE.<ref name=tuxphones>{{cite web |last1=T. |first1=Raffaele 
|title=Librem 5 vs. PinePhone: comparison of two Linux smartphones
|url=https://tuxphones.com/purism-librem-5-vs-pine64-pinephone-linux-smartphone-comparison/ |website=TuxPhones |language=en |date=2 September 2019}}</ref>
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