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by MBCook 589 days ago
To be fair, it’s just warranty data. It’s always existed. All you have to do is buy something to know it comes with a warranty card. So they could’ve figured it out it was there.

However the fact that they can now get it without having to sue for warranty information is certainly a new twist.

Of course they’d have to get it from a lobbying group, which wouldn’t exactly go over terribly well either.