Trade Pact Could Bar Governments From Auditing Source Code
http://www.wired.com/2015/11/trade-pact-could-bar-governments-from-auditing-source-code/
But if the international trade deal called the
Trans-Pacific Partnership is adopted, the US and other member
countries would be prohibited from requiring that companies from
other member states hand over the source code of their products.
Volkswagen's home country Germany is not one of the TPP's
potential member states, so this restriction wouldn't apply to
that company, but it could potentially limit US regulators'
access to Japanese and South Korean cars, among other products.
It could also put the kibosh on an idea proposed by Internet
pioneer Vint Cerf and a group of other experts to require
manufacturers to release the code that runs WiFi routers.
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