Even if true, they only know that some tyre ID was read by some scanner. They still need to match a particular tyre to a particular car and from that to a particular owner.

It could very well be just used for traffic management or toll systems.

There is still a long way to go from there to know where a particular car is at some point in time.

So what's the problem?
Just use GPL $zip and Windows Zip Folders!
Those are compatible...