· Analysis · 11 sources · opinion
Apple is back at the UK's Investigatory Powers Tribunal over a government demand for encrypted iCloud backups. Apple's own documentation shows Activation Lock, which governs whether a salvaged iPhone part will calibrate, sits outside that dispute entirely.
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· Statute · 5 sources
Colorado's right-to-repair obligations reach devices first sold from July 2021. The parts-pairing ban inside the same act reaches only devices first sold after January 2026, and the statute says two things its own summary leaves out.
· Statute · 7 sources
Four write-ups of Oregon's repair act mostly got the dates right. None separated the two things that matter: the prohibition has bound manufacturers since January 2025, and the remedy attached to it does not arrive until July 2027.
· Directive · 9 sources · opinion
Four professional summaries of the EU repair directive disagree about how long a manufacturer must supply spare parts. The figure most often quoted is real, but it belongs to a different regulation, and it is described in a way that shortens it.