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Google changes repair policy after criticism of third-party parts ban (arstechnica.com)

submitted 5 months ago by downpunxx@fedia.io to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Google previously said it would not return mailed-in devices using "unauthorized" parts.

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[–] snooggums@midwest.social 76 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Keep in mind that policy changes can be reverted at any moment in time, so this is only good as long as people pay attention.

[–] bluGill@kbin.run 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There are evisting federal laws, right to repair laws, and plenty of attorny generals who will get involved.

[–] realbadat@programming.dev 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So that in 15 or so years, a class action lawsuit completes where Google now provides you with a whole $10 coupon to the play store and a check for $0.65.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Reminds me of the Ashley Madison leak. Watching the Netflix documentary where there was a class action lawsuit

In August 2015, after its customer records were leaked by hackers, a $576 million class-action lawsuit was filed against the company.

In July 2017, the parent company of Ashley Madison agreed to pay $11.2 million to settle the class action lawsuit filed on behalf of the approximately 37 million users whose personal details were leaked

Lol cost of doing business, a write off by their accounting department

[–] realbadat@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago

If I remember right on that one, users had even paid to have their data removed, too. But it was stored unencrypted. And that settlement included unidentified users which the money was going to be held onto for them to put ads in magazines or something. Wild.

The huge, nearly billion dollar Facebook settlement was something like $50/person. Google's privacy class action suit was like $10 per person.

And boy oh boy can we be sure they learned their lesson! Facebook and Google haven't done anything shady with private information since, right?

[–] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 10 points 5 months ago

Google doesn't care what end users scream about (such as YouTube ads) but I have a feeling some lawyers had an emergency meeting to explain why this was a crap idea.

I feel like this change is here to stay for a while.