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Amendment 368 would create a regulatory framework that will ensure that mobile phone manufacturers must employ cloud-based blocking and IMEI-linked device locks to render stolen phones unusable. The phones will be functionally useless, unable to access call services, and would not even work as wifi devices. While criminal gangs typically wipe and reset smartphones to sell them as legitimate used devices, cloud-based blocking prevents the device from activating with a new user account, closing this loophole.