If you opt out from Toyota data collection, they even disable your keyfob remote start. GM even threatens to void warranty.

Does it makes any difference that they sell it LexisNexis and the likes first, that then sells it to police departments?

They are doing it and attempting to offset costs by offering subscriptions for connected services.

Your car is collecting and transmitting a lot more data than you think, as this investigation graphically depicts.

Toyota is accused of collecting and sharing driver data, but it's not the only car brand facing privacy concerns

How to Figure Out What Your Car Knows About You (and Opt Out of Sharing When You Can)

Every new car becomes used car with time. More so, opt-out becomes more complicated on a used car, where data permissions and ownership now involves additional party - previous owner.

We every new car equipped with a connected data collection module enabled by default, isn't license plate readers is the least of automotive surveillance problems?

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Please stop ruining The Narrative with your malinformation and facts.

Let me google it for you:jury rigging.

So in 2025 parts of Africa are still not electrified, they have to resort to jury-rigging half-solutions, and you hold this as an example of what we should be aspiring to? I mean, I get that is what misandristic Gaianism fanatics want to force on us, but still...

Probably spend that time looking for nearest nuclear shelter?

See how difficult it is to disable. Some make it very difficult by integrating it into the dash screen, others have it as a separate module that can be removed without any ill effects. Plus, I know Subaru, if you call and insist, will send remote kill command to your data collection module.

Disabling of functionality and continuation of data collection.

The mass-adoption of automotive spyware started around 2019 (OnStar existed long prior to that) where a combination of cheap cell modems and bulk contracts with telecoms allowed it happen. This was sold as over-the-air updates, but really it was always-connected car that collects all your driving data. Most cars were sold with 5 or 10 year "free" plans where integration with various apps and similar IoShit features were bundled in with the car purchase. So they would entice owners to click OK when they downloaded app to monitor car door locks or to enable remote start and burred in ToS permission to sell data (which is transferred to the next owner when the car is sold). As such, it is likely that they will keep collecting data while no longer supporting any of the features that were offered to new car owners and count on people's ignorance of the fact. Some manufacturers (I know for certain Subaru does, as you can request it) have ability to send remote kill to the modem and they also have ability to blacklist SIM ICCID to disconnect them at the provider level. So once used cars get hacked into botnets etc., they will send out mass disconnect to the affected models.