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Almost all modern cars have a way of providing or grabbing location data, however most manufactures do not "Spy" on your car by default, this would violate CCPA, colorados privacy act, GDPR... ETC. The users need to opt-in to telematics data. For example in Hyundai case when you create a "Blue link" account and accept their terms of service you are connecting whatever vehicle you have verified on your account to their telematics system, and subsequently opting in to tracking.

Manufactures like VW/Audi place an opt out within the vehicle itself so if you opt out of telematics in the vehicle you are in a full privacy mode and the manufacture cannot get the data or override this request. This covers the scenario if other "Users" of the vehicle are driving and would choose to opt out outside of the main users/owner.

So some bake it into your app registration and signup, and some leave it in the vehicle. The gist is you can opt out, and if the manufacturer does not respect that you have grounds to sue, Currently there is a lawsuit against GM/Caddy because a user did not opt-in to Usage Based Insurance, but their information was captured and brokered blocking them from acquiring new insurance.

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The EFF [1] is less optimistic that all of this spying is opt-in and clearly-stated (instead of buried in legalese), and Wired [2] likewise mentions cases where it's opt-out instead of -in.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/how-figure-out-what-yo...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20240705093406/https://www.wired...

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often the opt in is buried in 15 pages of paperwork when you buy the vehicle