What Massachusetts' New Right-to-Repair Law Means for Small Auto Repair Shops – Next City
Question 1 passed with a resounding 74.9 percent of the vote, a celebrated victory for consumer rights advocates and a bitter defeat for automakers and some data security proponents. Right to repair is the notion that, and movement for, ensuring consumers have the ability to repair and modify things they’ve bought themselves or through a repair shop of their choosing. In Massachusetts, the law is chiefly concerned with car repair. In 2013, Massachusetts passed an automotive right to repair law that gave independent repair shops the same access as dealers to vehicle information that’s used...
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