Scoop: I obtained the contract Samsung requires independent shops to sign to buy phone repair parts from them.

It requires:

- "Daily" dumps of customer data
- The "immediate destruction" of any phones a shop comes across that has third-party parts

https://www.404media.co/samsung-requires-independent-repair-shops-to-share-customer-data-snitch-on-people-who-use-aftermarket-parts-leaked-contract-shows/

Samsung Requires Independent Repair Shops to Share Customer Data, Snitch on People Who Use Aftermarket Parts, Leaked Contract Shows

The contract requires repair shops to "immediately disassemble" devices that have parts "not purchased from Samsung."

404 Media

@jasonkoebler thank you. definitely NOT buying any #samsung electronics anymore whenever i have a say in it.

#gnusmas

@івась тарасик I bought a Samsung "Smart TV" 12 years ago.

My 2 stepdaughters were happy that it had software onboard to watch YouTube shite. I wasn't too happy because I've learned to be very suspicious.

So I disconnected it from my LAN, it doesn't have to phone home to Samsung or whatever other party. Of course, my stepdaughers thought I was being paranoid.

https://www.techradar.com/news/samsung-smart-tvs-will-soon-have-a-privacy-app-but-your-data-is-still-your-responsibility
Samsung Smart TVs will soon have a privacy app, but your data is still your responsibility

Awareness, not prevention

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@hans i have youtube blocked on home network. that was not the point though… the audacity of the company requiring user data and destruction of their property is bordering crime, the servicing companies who sign those conditions are accomplices imho.
@івась тарасик Bordering? Nah, this if full-fledged crime, not bordering. The ones who decided on this should be put behind bars!