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Going under the hood
The new chief executive of Volkswagen, Matthias Mueller, has promised an unsparing investigation and maximum transparency. But will that transparency extend to the software itself? Because tinkering with your car's software is illegal under copyright laws. But were those copyright laws ever intended to protect software in a car? Wendy Grossman is a privacy activist and open software advocate.
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