NY Right-to-Repair Bill Restores ‘Fundamental Right of Choice to Consumers’: Lawyer
For centuries, it has been a “fundamental right of owning something that it is yours -- it belongs to you, and you control what happens to it,” emailed George Slover, Center for Democracy & Technology senior counsel-competition policy, in praise…
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of New York’s passage of the nation’s first electronics right-of-repair legislation (see 2206030034). If a product breaks, “you can get it fixed where you want, or fix it yourself if you can,” said Slover, former Consumer Reports senior policy counsel. “Consumers should not lose this right just because the product now comes with electronics inside it,” he said. The New York legislation “restores that fundamental right of choice to consumers, giving them greater ability to get their electronics-enabled products fixed more conveniently and more affordably,” said Slover. “By opening up the repair aftermarket to competition, it gives independent technicians the opportunity to offer this service to consumers -- just like cobblers and blacksmiths and seamstresses have been able to do."