Thank you for joining us for another week in repair, our last of 2022! We are extremely appreciative for those…
With a little more than a week left for the Governor to sign The Digital Fair Repair Act (S4104A/A07006), I am making public an email I sent to the Governor in early September urging her to pass the Digital Fair Repair Act, and addressing some of the misconceptions and outright untruths foisted upon her office by anti-repair interests including lobbyists for the electronics, telecommunications and home appliance industries.
Part pairing is fueling planned obsolescence, says a complaint filed in France. Plus: What to do about the e-waste from electric cars? And: the FTC wants to hear your thoughts on right to repair.
Climate change isn’t killing the planet. Runaway consumption is. Also: Sirrius XM flaw exposes vehicles to remote attacks. And: Subaru sued over collecting biometric data without permission.
It has been more than four months since the New York legislature passed the Digital Fair Repair Act with a veto proof majority in the Senate and a near unanimous vote (145-2) in the New York Assembly. It’s time the governor signed it into law.
SecuRepairs received the Free Software Foundation’s Award for Projects of Social Benefit, given to a project or team responsible for “applying free software, or the ideas of the free software movement, to intentionally and significantly benefit society.” This is a win for all of us!
This Saturday, the right to repair is on the agenda DEF CON. with a panel of leading repair, legal and cybersecurity experts: Brazil Redux: Short Circuiting Tech-Enabled Dystopia with the Right to Repair.
If you’re interested in the intersection of the right to repair with law and policy, you’ll want to set aside…
Australian Consumer Watchdog Accuses Honda of Lying to Customers The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) has accused Honda Australia…
EU expands right to repair rules; repair advocate Louis Rossmann says electric skateboard firm ‘worse than Apple’ on repair; and Colorado wheelchair repair law rolls on.