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by maxerickson 4506 days ago
The HuffPo article misunderstood the $30 billion figure. It is provided by a company that sells a cell phone recovery app/service:

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120322005325/en/Look....

It is their estimate of how much lost and stolen phones cost Americans, not the worldwide market for stolen phones.