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I don’t like this. I’m okay with dying in a cold river or a burning car after a crash if it means I don’t have to be worried about being tracked every second of my life.

At some point, its going to cost extra to buy cars without GPS trackers, houses without police-force endorses surveillance nets, or phones with an actual “off” button. This is much more pressing, in my opinion, than people buying into heavily processed meat substitutes.

I think there's quite a gap between, 'built into every car' and insurance companies requiring access to it. GPS is in every customer phone but insurance companies don't require access to that either.

I'm curious if you happen to know -

Is it only mandatory to ship it with new cars, or is it mandatory to have it installed?

Would it be legal for me to remove, similar to what I've done with Onstar/Starlink in the past?