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365 The FTC should stop tech companies from bricking their products, consumer groups say

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Gaby Del Valle @ The Verge · 09/05/2024 03:00 EDT

The FTC should stop tech companies from bricking their products, consumer groups say

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge


A coalition of consumer protection and anti-waste groups wants the Federal Trade Commission to go after “software tethering,” or the practice of tying hardware’s functionality to external software — which often renders products unusable after software updates stop.
The groups, including Consumer Reports, iFixIt, US PIRG, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for Economic Justice, and Californians Against Waste, have signed onto a letter asking the FTC to “cr

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