The EU proposes to handle deceptive car software by allowing car manufacturers to keep their emissions control systems secret. That would encourage them to deceive even more.

Businesses are not in general entitled to human rights. Trade secrecy is an antisocial practice that often harms the public and occasionally endangers the public. Whenever a business's secret practice endanger the public, the business should be compelled to reveal the secrets so that people can check on the danger.