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The Samsung right-to-repair story just got worse

Repair shops may be giving Samsung your personal info.

Samsung is apparently forcing independent repair shops to give up your personally identifying information — and report you for using aftermarket parts. It’s not just independent repair shops, by the way — Samsung might be adding you to a database every time you buy an official replacement part. And not every repair shop knows its rights or is eager to fight Samsung, which controls 25 percent of the US smartphone market and is far and away the top Android provider in the United States.

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