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0 pointsokanat7d ago0 comments

You're proving the previous commenter's point. VW doesn't want liability. They do not care about "security" just liability.

When they leave the "security" to the platform they can blame them in a lawsuit.

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anonymousiam7d ago· 3 in thread

Google has a pretty good legal team. Their developer ToS that absolves them of any sort of liability for anything. So this means VW is just being lazy and not seeking legal protection.

https://play.google/developer-distribution-agreement.html

klausa7d ago

>Their developer ToS that absolves them of any sort of liability for anything.

This is... obviously not true?

If you could (somehow) meaningfully damage a car via the app, do you think VW wouldn't be liable because of the Google Play developer ToS?

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noisy_boy7d ago

> VW is just being lazy

Maybe they rather be lazy and be able to shift blame, even without much legal recourse.

rurban6d ago

They don't care about legal recourse. If there's something wrong, they'll just change the laws. That's why they don't care about GrapheneOS users, or any EU regulation which could harm them.

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