You could ask the same thing about most cars with an internal combustion engine as well. Most of them do store some key data inboard. Some already push quite

You could ask the same thing about most cars with an internal combustion engine as well. Most of them do store some key data inboard. Some already push quite a lot of data to the cloud. The biggest reason most car manufacturers are laggards in this respect is because they mostly don't make the onboard systems themselves. As opposed to manufacturers like Tesla, which understand that making the onboard systems is important both from a practical and strategic point of view. I don't think privacy will be respected unless there are strict regulations in place that are taken as seriously as, for instance, cheating on emissions tests. But in recent years there has been a keenness in government to harvest this data. So I wouldn't hold my breath.