In a dispute over a repair law, Subaru and Kia crippled their own wireless features in Massachusetts. Maine could be next.

    • douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      This is the true answer here.

      Government doing it’s job and regulating companies to prevent anti-consumer practices and hostile design.

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      1 year ago

      I agree. There’s not like hundreds of unknown car manufacturers just waiting for this privacy opportunity to strike so they make it big, who can then ramp up production to meet the need… There’s no way free market principles can provide a solution in this case