FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Boston, MA — November 9, 2025 — Secure Repairs, a coalition of more than 400 cybersecurity professionals advocating for the right to repair, has joined leading organizations in filing an amicus brief urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to affirm a February, 2025 ruling by a district court judge that rejected efforts by the auto industry to declare Massachusetts’s 2020 Right-to-Repair law a violation of federal authority.

Secure Repairs, an organization of cyber professionals that support the right to repair, applauded a ruling by a federal court in Massachusetts upholding the state's automotive right to repair law. Secure Repairs member Craig Smith provided expert testimony in the case in support of the law.

Automakers quickly said they may appeal the decision to a higher court, which means the legal wrangling could continue.

Hospitals are increasingly being forced into maintenance contracts with device manufacturers, driving up costs.

Secure Repairs had the honor (?) of awarding the CES Worst In Show for cybersecurity at this year's ceremony. The winner: Chinese SOHO router giant TP-Link.

Embodied, which makes the Moxie emotional support robot for kids, said it is shutting down, rendering its robots inoperable. Also: industry groups urge Trump to cancel right to repair.

Will Trump 2.0 help or hinder the right to repair movement? New documentaries on Netflix and YouTube call out a booming culture of waste and planned obsolescence.

With a vote by Parliament (and a nod from King Charles ??!) Canada took a big step ahead of the U.S. as a pro-repair economy. Also: cracked your Pixel 9 Fold's screen? Get your wallet out.

Securepairs.org is pushing back against a tech industry that wants independent repair legislation to be scary.