{"id":19021,"date":"2025-06-03T15:37:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T13:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/03\/mps-accuse-apple-and-google-of-profiting-from-rise-in-phone-thefts\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T15:37:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T13:37:53","slug":"mps-accuse-apple-and-google-of-profiting-from-rise-in-phone-thefts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/03\/mps-accuse-apple-and-google-of-profiting-from-rise-in-phone-thefts\/","title":{"rendered":"MPs accuse Apple and Google of profiting from rise in phone thefts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firms defend security features after police tell committee 80,000 phones were stolen in London in 2024<\/p>\n<p>MPs have accused Apple and Google of profiting from multimillion-pound phone-snatching operations that police say are masterminded by organised crime gangs in Britain, Algeria and China.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, 80,000 phone devices of all kinds were stolen in London alone, up a quarter from 64,000 in 2023. The devices had a street value of about \u00a320m, and iPhones made up the majority.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/jun\/03\/mps-apple-google-phone-thefts-london\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2ad601f828fd8a64af7bccf2e2241f7cd1f3c3f7\/276_0_3448_2758\/master\/3448.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b3f62d2f8a80ca14964a5c1dc6d72e46\" title=\"MPs accuse Apple and Google of profiting from rise in phone thefts\" \/>Firms defend security features after police tell committee 80,000 phones were stolen in London in 2024<br \/>\nMPs have accused Apple and Google of profiting from multimillion-pound phone-snatching operations that police say are masterminded by organised crime gangs in Britain, Algeria and China.<br \/>\nIn 2024, 80,000 phone devices of all kinds were stolen in London alone, up a quarter from 64,000 in 2023. The devices had a street value of about \u00a320m, and iPhones made up the majority. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firms defend security features after police tell committee 80,000 phones were stolen in London in 2024 MPs have accused Apple and Google of profiting from multimillion-pound phone-snatching operations that police say are masterminded by organised crime gangs in Britain, Algeria and China. In 2024, 80,000 phone devices of all kinds were stolen in London alone, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/03\/mps-accuse-apple-and-google-of-profiting-from-rise-in-phone-thefts\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MPs accuse Apple and Google of profiting from rise in phone thefts<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19021"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}