San Francisco ices cellphone radiation law

Release Date 7 May, 2011 in Mobile Burn

 
   

Sacramento should take up cell phone safety

San Francisco Chronicle - 7 May, 2011
The cellular phone industry, wielding the threat of litigation, intimidated San Francisco into shelving a law that would have required point-of-sale disclosure of phones' radiation levels. The industry had similarly pressured the Federal Communications ...

SF shelves cell phone radiation ordinance

CNET (blog) - Kent German - 7 May, 2011
San Francisco officials have indefinitely delayed implementation of the city's Right to Know ordinance, which would have required retailers to display a phone's Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) at the point of sale and distribute materials ...

SF puts cell phone radiation law on hold

San Francisco Chronicle - Heather Knight - ‎May 6, 2011‎
UC Berkeley researcher Joel Moskowitz says the commonly accepted way to measure radiation is not very useful. San Francisco has rarely shied away from a legal fight over its cutting-edge laws - be it Walgreens suing over the ban on selling cigarettes ...

San Francisco ices cellphone radiation law

Mobile Burn - Dan Seifert - 7 May, 2011
San Francisco had planned on enacting a new law that would require cellphone retailers to place a sticker on their phones displaying the radiation levels put out by each device. The city has since decided to can the idea for now, due in no small part ...

Get The Tin Foil Back Out, SF, Calif. Shelves Cell Phone Radiation Law

DailyTech - 7 May, 2011
"I'll be damned if I let those invisible EM waves get into my brain...eat lead, cell tower!!" -- Random SF Cat (Source: Google Images) Clearly these young San Francisco residents are headed for an awful end if you believe their cell-phone fearing ...

Gavin Newsom's Cell Phone Radiation Bill Appears DOA, Will Lawsuit Against SF ...

The San Francisco Appeal - Eve Batey - 7 May, 2011
When Gavin Newsom pushed his "Cell Phone Right to Know" bill to an eventual 10-1 vote by the Board of Supervisors (only Supervisor Sean Elsbernd, a Newsom political ally, voted against), the legislation compelling cell phone retailers to ...

San Francisco Places Cell Phone Radiation Law on Hold

Gotta Be Mobile - Adam Mills - 7 May, 2011
San Francisco's controversial cell phone radiation law, one that would have required retailers to slap a label with radiation figures on cell phone boxes, has been put on indefinite hold as the city will likely pass a tamer law in its place. ...

Cell Phone Radiation Law Delayed Indefinitely in San Francisco

Mobiledia - Kendra Srivastava - 7 May, 2011
Senator Mark Leno (D., Calif.) has been pushing the legislation, which would have mandated California cell phone carriers to label phones with data on peak radiation output. The law was set to take effect ...

San Francisco backs off cell phone radiation law

IntoMobile - 7 May, 2011
Remember that San Francisco ordinance about putting warning labels on cell phones over the amount of radiation it emits that the mobile industry hated? Well, it looks like the city by the bay will be backing off from it. The proposed San Francisco cell ...

Cell Phone Security

Shepherdstown Observer - Grant Moerschel - ‎May 6, 2011‎
Most everyone has a cell phone these days. Current statistics indicate that worldwide, 5 billion phones enable 7 billion people to talk, text, and email. For better or worse, these devices have become seemingly indispensable hand ...

Tin Foil Hats Away!

Mobiles Please Blog (blog) - ‎May 6, 2011‎
I'ma nerd. I like science, and so I was particularly amused at the news that San Francisco has abandoned a stupid idea for a law requiring cellphone retailers to label each device's radiation levels. The law would have required that all phones be ...

 

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