The CTIA Wireless industry trade association has filed a lawsuit against the city of San Francisco in protest of it’s “Right to Know” law. The new law requires mobile phone retailers to post the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) of cell phones next to where they are displayed. As a phone cannot be sold unless it is labeled as safe by the U.S. government, the CTIA thinks San Francisco’s law in superfluous. The CTIA said “our objection to the ordinance is that displaying a phone’s SAR value at the point-of-sale suggests to the consumer that there is a meaningful safety distinction between FCC-compliant devices with different SAR levels. The FCC has determined that all wireless phones legally sold in the United States are safe.”
Source: CTIA via Phonescoop
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