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Toyota and TPMs

By Howard Knopf, Esq.

These boxes may contain useful information for plaintiffs in various lawsuits, not to mention regulators. But only Toyota can decode this information and "says it only makes the data available when requested to do so by law enforcement, federal regulators or by court order", according to the Wall Street Journal's Law Blog.

The obvious questions that now arise, such as whether we can trust Toyota to provide full disclosure of the decoded information, once again require that we ask whether any protection for TPMs is warranted in the absence of all necessary protection from them.

Indeed, maybe we need go even further to ask whether there are some situations - such as the use of TPMs in automobile black boxes - where such protection should actually be prohibited.

HK

Full post as published by Excess Copyright on February 16, 2010 (boomark / email).