Cory Doctorow is a great author 
There was also this one which was in respect to Toyota’s nonsense.
One Toyota customer CHOICE spoke to, Mathew, spent $68,000 on a Toyota Hilux last year. When the vehicle became available for collection after a few months, he started receiving emails asking him to sign up for Toyota Connected Services - a feature he’d never been told about.
“Mathew told us the more he looked into the policy, the more uncomfortable he felt having this technology in his car. He asked Toyota if the technology could be removed - not simply deactivated - prior to picking up the car, but they said removing it would void the warranty, and his insurance would likely also be at risk,” says Alam.
Mathew cancelled his finance and never picked up the car, but Toyota still refused to refund his $2,000 deposit. It was only after CHOICE sent questions to Toyota Australia that the dealership agreed to return the money.
There isn’t much you can do as there is an locked down onboard computer with it’s own cellular chip set in the Data Communication Module which I mentioned in a post in another thread:
Probably the best thing you can do is buy an older car that doesn’t have all that crap so tightly integrated and buy your own dumb head unit.
What really needs to happen is that government legislation needs to tighten down on what data can be collected, and what can be done with it, and ultimately give the user the option to not supply/upload it anywhere.