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Senators rip into automakers for selling customer data and blocking right to repair

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Sens. Elizabeth Warren , Jeff Merkley , and Josh Hawley are calling out the auto industry for its “hypocritical, profit-driven” opposition to right-to-repair laws.

The trio of legislators urge them to better protect customer privacy, while also dropping their opposition to state and national right to repair laws.

They cite a Federal Trade Commission study that found “no empirical evidence’s claims that independent shops would be more likely to compromise customer data.

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70

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informal

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English

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70

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