My take on this is that a bunch of bright young things will soon figure out several ways to hack it, complete with how-to videos on YouTube. Then the Overlords will making hacking it against the law (if they haven’t already). Then the Overlords will have to arrest EVERYONE with a car. This could be interesting.
A squirrel must have chewed the GPS cable.
Did the squirrel also solder a jumper wire from pin 6 on the GPS chip to ground?
Fortunately the NSA will have some people who aren't bugging Merkel to see if you viewed any of those videos.