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My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”

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Waterluvian · 1786041461 · focus · HN ↗
Is "snatching a phone and running off" a common enough problem in some regions that this is worth having? Or is this a feature chasing after fears of the bogeyman, leading to concrete inconveniences like this?
1. hbn · 1786041524 · focus · HN ↗
  > Is "snatching a phone and running off" a common enough problem in some regions that this is worth having?
  Yes absolutely
  <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/phone-london-snatch-9.7204104" rel="nofollow">https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/phone-london-snatch-9.7204104
  1. Waterluvian · 1786041776 · focus · HN ↗
    Thanks! Given this was CBC, my jaw hit the floor when I saw London. I live 20 mins from London, Ontario and 70k thefts in a year would be _insane_. Then I realized it was about London, U.K. and my jaw only hit the table. 70k is still insane, though.
    skobes · 1786042706 · focus · HN ↗
    Even the CBC thinks of London, England before London, Ontario.
    Waterluvian · 1786043076 · focus · HN ↗
    Poor London. (Ontario.) (Canada.)
    oniony · 1786090658 · focus · HN ↗
    They should have called it New London.
    mauvehaus · 1786109862 · focus · HN ↗
    That's in Connecticut and it's older than London, Ontario:
    <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London,_Connecticut" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London,_Connecticut

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