{"id":1700,"date":"2024-07-08T21:24:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T21:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/ftc-warns-eight-companies-of-potentially-hindering-consumers-right-to-repair\/"},"modified":"2024-07-08T21:24:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T21:24:35","slug":"ftc-warns-eight-companies-of-potentially-hindering-consumers-right-to-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/ftc-warns-eight-companies-of-potentially-hindering-consumers-right-to-repair\/","title":{"rendered":"FTC Warns Eight Companies of Potentially Hindering Consumers&#8217; &#8216;Right to Repair&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>The Federal Trade Commission this week cautioned eight companies about their warranty practices, saying their improper communications with consumers may hinder their right to repair purchased products and warning of potential enforcement action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese warning letters put companies on notice that restricting consumers\u2019 right to repair violates the law,\u201d Samuel Levine, director of the FTC\u2019s Bureau of Consumer Protection, said in a statement Wednesday. \u201cThe commission will continue our efforts to protect consumers\u2019 right to repair and independent dealers\u2019 right to compete.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Trade Commission this week cautioned eight companies about their warranty practices, saying their improper communications with consumers may hinder their right to repair purchased products and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1046,1695,352,2395,2394,2396,2393],"class_list":["post-1700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-companies","tag-consumers","tag-ftc","tag-hindering","tag-potentially","tag-repair","tag-warns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}