CRRA 2023 Conference and Trade Show

Founder

Overview on Current State of Right to Repair

Repair is gaining momentum, in large part due to the efforts of organizations and current legislative actions. Join our panel of unique perspectives to hear more on the following topics: The current state of Right to Repair – federal and state levels, specifically status in CA. Successes such as Fixit Clinics and municipal rollouts. Where are the barriers, what we’ve learned, what do we see for the future progress. How do we create, encourage and maintain success, including the creation of a legal climate that favors right to repair.

Right to Repair Successes with Fixit Clinics

Chief Counsel for Development and Innovation

Dan Salsburg is the Chief Counsel for Development and Innovation in the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection.  Dan was one of the principal authors of the FTC’s 2021 Nixing the Fix Report to Congress which catalogued the ways manufacturers inhibit repairs of products and debunked manufacturers’ claims that independent repair poses safety and cybersecurity risks.  In April 2023, Dan presented the FTC’s testimony to the California Senate judiciary Committee in favor of SB-244, the “Right to Repair Act.”  Previously, Dan led the FTC’s Office of Technology Research and Investigation where he worked with a team of technologists on consumer protection research.  In this role, Dan organized the FTC’s first PrivacyCon, a now-major annual conference concerning privacy and data security  Dan also has co-authored peer-reviewed research concerning the use of leaked identifiers and payment data, the adoption of email authentication technologies by popular domains, and the security offerings of web hosts that market their services to small businesses.  Dan has also served as an Assistant Director and staff attorney at the FTC, where he supervised and litigated cases involving spam, internet fraud, and mobile technologies. Previously, he served as a Senior Trial Attorney in the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Enforcement. He received his BA and JD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.

Pushing the Right to Repair Forward

Director of Advocacy