Sixty-eight percent of people responding to a survey say that they’d put themselves at risk of physical harm if it meant retrieving a stolen smartphone … Only 10 percent of people have had a phone stolen, but, as the San Francisco Examiner noted, 50 percent of robberies in the city focused on phones as the target. And with the loss of a phone comes the loss of pictures, contacts and banking information.

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