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What does that have to do with sending telematics to 3rd parties? All that stuff runs on the car.

Our (US) legislation might be dysfunctional, but they aren't that stupid and gullible.

Sadly, yes they kinda are. Government agencies regularly buy feeds of this data for traffic/safety analysis. In the eyes of a lot of people working on these systems, it's often very much life or death because not doing analysis on it means more vehicle deaths. When I've talked to the folk who've worked on these systems, they entirely believe that the data is anonymous, so they don't see it as a privacy infringement.

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