Macintosh computers have a "recovery startup" mode where it boots on a minimal OS partition (chosen by holding cmd-R right after power-on). All current Macs get

Macintosh computers have a "recovery startup" mode where it boots on a minimal OS partition (chosen by holding cmd-R right after power-on). All current Macs gets such a partition as part of normal OS install. This enables checking HW without having access to the customers data (i.e. encrypted partition). All computers and phones should have such a recovery/repair mode. I would not be surprised that if this continues to be a problem, then EU will mandate that repair should not be allowed to ask for password and that all devices must have a repair mode. It seems like a straightforward extension of GDPR.