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I don't really care about car privacy myself.
Where I drive to isn't really a secret, social events are organized on Discord. And if driving recklessly raises my insurance premiums then that's deserved. I wouldn't risk something as expensive as a car with privacy hacks.
You should, privacy is a human right which is being stripped away from us.
You're basically saying I don't really care about my human rights.
Without privacy, you're one step closer to an authoritan regime, where mass surveillance helps prevent an uprising of the people against it.
E.g. Russia, where you "accidentally slit your throat while shaving" when you go against Putin.
Then you're lacking in imagination.
Similar data have outed people's pregnancies, relationships and locations, which has been used to let people be stalked and even murdered.
Car data can be sold and amalgamated to create a very precise profile of you, available to be purchased by anyone. Anyone with about $100 can purchase access to your daily/weekly schedule, including physical locations, and can easily steal your identity, if not rob or murder you.
Also, foreign propaganda can similarly profile you and hyper target influence campaigns.
To complement the above reply, although you paid a lot for the car, you're paying even more daily, giving many away to very nasty companies that will turn your investment against you to increase their profit. Your data will be sold and you're donating money to billionaires.
Is that what you want? Are you happy to have ads on a windows install you already paid, for example?
Because that's what you're doing. If you got a massive discount on account of the daily extra profit you'll give them I would understand. But if not, why be so charitable to people who don't deserve it?
I bought glasses recently and, like the dork I am, loudly complained about trying to find a pair that didn't have advertisements in the form of logos on the arms. Since they aren't discounted as compensation for fluffing their marketing department, and all that.
Clerk said 'yeah they actually charge more for the stupid name' and shoppers laughed so people mostly know but comply. The supply chain is perverse, ok. Life is full of struggle so the small ones slide.
“I’ve got nothing to hide”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument