"As Executive Director of the California Brain Tumor Association I know far too many who have perished from cancers caused, more likely than not, by their cellphone use. Had they been advised at the point of sale to never hold the phone to their body they would not have put their lives at risk."
by Guest contributor Ellen Marks, berkeleyside.com, 5 May 2015
Ellen Marks is Executive Director of the California Brain Tumor Association
We all deserve the right to know at the point of sale the FCC required “safe distance” information currently hidden deep within the cellphone or in an online manual few read. We are entitled to make informed decisions for ourselves and for our children as to safest possible use of this device used hours daily even by children.
Berkeley can do the right thing when the City Council considers a right to know ordinance at its meeting on May 12.
The wireless industry has blocked this information at point of sale across the U.S. by threatening lawsuits when a similar ordinance is considered. It sued San Francisco, which was forced to repeal its cellphone right to know law which passed the Board of Supervisors unanimously. The higher courts ruled in a nonbinding decision that San Francisco’s law violated the industry’s first amendment rights by compelling speech. And what about our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
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