[Infowarrior] - ICE Starts Raiding Mobile Phone Repair Shops To Stop Repairs With Aftermarket Parts

[Richard Forno]

ICE Starts Raiding Mobile Phone Repair Shops To Stop Repairs With Aftermarket Parts

from the is-this-really-the-best-use-of-taxpayer-money dept

Apparently Homeland Security's Immigration & Custom's Enforcement (ICE) team has found a new tech issue to overreact to and overhype. shutslar points us to a story of ICE agents raiding 25 smartphone repair shops in South Florida for daring to repair phones with aftermarket parts, rather than original products from Apple. As seems standard for ICE these days, rather than actually understanding the details at hand, they're taking orders from a corporate entity, in this case, Apple...
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http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20130429/07214322874/homeland-security-participates-trademark-raid.shtml

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