The proposed law will require companies to reveal the reasonable support time frame of users on the packaging of the product and online where it is sold, so that users can expect a device that has access to those connected features for how long. It will also ask companies to notify customers when their devices are near the end of their support life and inform them about which features will disappear.
Finally, with a cybersecurity perspective, it will require internet suppliers to eliminate and exchange broadband routers supplied by the company from consumers when they come to the end of their lives.
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If the specific router feels a bit on the left yard, it is because Roberts said it was an intentional approach. Those are two different issues, but all of them are part of the bigger problem, Mr. Roberts Roberts said, some of the guards and definitions around this smart equipment market. Tell the manufacturers, there are rules you need to follow if you want to sell a smart connected product. It is not the wild west.
Roberts hopes that if the law receives the support from the legislators, and is eventually transformed into a real law, it will create market incentives for companies that want to create safer software products, similar to how the seat belt and airbags are widely accepted in motor vehicles.
However, it is unclear that law will have any traction at the federal level in the US in the political environment dominated by indiscriminate, The whirlwind abolished regulations. While the European Union has led in the regulation on the ability to repair products and the end of life for vehicles and Electronic waste recyclingThe United States did not perform similar moves.
We are in a place where FTC and Consumer Finance Department will not really do anything that is professional consumers. “I don't see any real appetite for the regulations.”
SAG also feels that such a law is likely to reduce the desire to innovate to promote startups. If companies know that they must support a product over a set period, it may limit the type of risk they are willing to bear.
I don't necessarily think it is a bad thing, Mr. Sag Sag said. I just think that there are many startups out there are not ready to accept that risk. And I think, because of that, it can hinder innovation in some ways.
Higginbotham is less worried about this. She returned to her large collection of dead devices, what had reached a pile of real electronic waste.
I don't know if it is really counted as innovation, Mr. Higginbotham said. We need to adjust our default settings based on decades and half of experience. Perhaps you don't need to throw a series of things into Ether and see what the stick.