COVID Reaction: Right to Repair Bills

What’s happening? A nonprofit in Portland salvages broken laptops, tablets and desktops, fixes them and provides them at low or no-cost to people who can’t afford new ones. Super important for the new work from home adaptation in COVID.

Why is this important? The non profit had a hard time accessing repair parts and manuals that prevented independent entities from repairing computers. Enter bills like H260 (2021 | MA)

How will this be important? Technet members opposes the bills saying they will make the devices more susceptible to hackers.

Route Fifty | Pandemic Drives Phone, Computer ‘Right-to-Repair’ Bills