https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/

Yeah this is sad, almost everything that Richard Stallman has predicted has happened. I remember him helping his friend remove the Sim connection on a Nissan leaf because it was tracking the user back in 2014/2015.

He made a comment on how cars will invade your privacy in the future.

Tesla is the worse and others are following with over-the-air software updates.  They can do whatever they want with your car after you've paid for it.

I'll stick with my old Land Rover.

And to add to this...

The Impending Privacy Threat of Self-Driving Cars:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/impending-privacy-threat-self-driving-cars

In a world of decreasing government revenues from petrol excise (more electric cars), I guarantee that they will implement a tax per kilometre driven instead. 

Of course the government will never use the GPS data to track where and when you visit certain places...


... until they do.