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Chan Grinvald and Tur-Sinai: Battle over right to repair is fight over your car’s data - Bay to Bay News
As legal scholars, we find that the question of whether you and your local mechanic can tap into your car’s data to diagnose and repair spans issues of property rights, trade secrets, cybersecurity, data privacy and consumer rights.” Leah Chan Grinvald is a professor of law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Ofer Tur-Sinai is a professor of law at Ono Academic College. This was first published via The Conversation. Cars are no longer just a means of transportation.
The battle over right to repair is a fight over your car’s data
Cars are no longer just a means of transportation. They have become rolling hubs of data communication. Modern vehicles regularly transmit information wirelessly to their manufacturers. However, as cars grow “smarter,” the right to repair them is under siege. As legal scholars, we find that the question of whether you and your local mechanic can tap into your car’s data to diagnose and repair spans issues of property rights, trade secrets, cybersecurity, data privacy and consumer rights.
The battle over right to repair is a fight over your car's data
Cars are no longer just a means of transportation. They have become rolling hubs of data communication. Modern vehicles regularly transmit information wirelessly to their manufacturers. However, as cars grow “smarter,” the right to repair them is under siege. As legal scholars, we find that the question of whether you and your local mechanic can tap into your car’s data to diagnose and repair spans issues of property rights, trade secrets, cybersecurity, data privacy and consumer rights.
The battle over right to repair is a fight over your car's data
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"Intellectual Property Law and the Right to Repair" by Leah Chan Grinvald and Ofer Tur-Sinai
This Article posits that intellectual property law should accommodate consumers’ right to repair their products. In recent years, there has been a growing push towards state legislation that would provide consumers with a “right to repair” their products. Currently, twenty states have pending legislation that would require product manufacturers to make available replacement parts and repair manuals. Unfortunately, though, this legislation has stalled in many of the states.
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