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The FTC is trying to find out if John Deere’s repair policies broke the law
The news came out in a recent filing from a third-party.
Recently, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) warned John Deere that it could be violating the Clean Air Act by excluding information in their manuals about farmers’ right to choose a repair shop from which to seek work on their equipment’s emission control devices. John Deere has been one of the main targets of the right-to-repair movement(along with Apple), which seeks to give customers more options to repair equipment with third-party services to expand access and lower costs. But companies that have resisted fully opening their ecosystem tend to cite issues with security, which is a message John Deere CTO Jahmy Hindman echoed .
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