Old industry shit sure, but honestly the way independent models work over things like of and fansly puts that power (for the most part) back where it belongs.
While you are beholden to your platform, its not like its that hard to jump ship either.
At this point it doesn't even make sense from an imperialistic prospective.
America is making itself look weak by not reigning in its attack dog. As callous and evil as this sounds: war genocide costs money, and you're wasting our shit.
Yeah but it was a luxury, and most likely an RX-only unit that only had a GPS radio. Even if you had a 2g cell radio in the 90's in your car it'd be incredibly limited, and horrendously expensive for something you could carry in your pocket.
These days even the cheapest model of Honda Civic will have a modern internet connected network of microcontrollers and computers which all receive OTA updates, many of which handle telemetry.
You also have to assume that your government has never illegally obtained data it shouldn't have in a shady manner.
It also doesn't bode well for what happens if your country falls into fascism, as all that data will still exist to be systematically, and retroactively used against you.
The former is true, however anyone who's ever looked at firewall logs will tell you plenty of skids are trying to get free domestic US IP addresses off of vulnerable home networks using automated means.
That being said that has really has jack shit to do with personal privacy/security against state-scale dragnet surveillance.
If you have a device that's actively connected to a cellular network, and has been while in your home or work, then your only option is to leave it behind or turn it off. That includes your car if it was made in the past decade, if nothing else, so it can catch OTA firmware updates, and send telemetry data.
GPS and location services don't mean shit when your carrier keeps logs of where you've been based on cell-tower triangulation.
I actually did get into a crash because I turned instead of broke but in my defense my brakes where more fucked than I thought til I got on, I shouldn't have been riding that thing lmao.
Also of you own a lectric xp and put a 52v battery on it, the speed limited becomes a suggestion. Ask me how I known lol.
Seriously though, next builds getting hydraulic brakes and a motor you can program to handle higher voltage batteries in a more reserved manner.
Glad my FreeIPA infra runs on rocky.
Redhat can suck my girlcock.