I'm presently replacing my car (Europe) with a new Opel, I'm somewhat disgusted at how the manufacturer is pushing their OnStar service as a wonderful thing. It

I'm presently replacing my car (Europe) with a new Opel, I'm somewhat disgusted at how the manufacturer is pushing their OnStar service as a wonderful thing. It's GPS and full-time connected LTE with a suite of sensors in the car, and this is for a commodity €25k vehicle. It's a big-brother network, it defaults to "on" and whilst there is a "disable onstar" software button it cannot be defaulted to "off". Customer benefits are touted as being "crash assistance if you need it", "easy access to a customer service agent (phone) who knows your position and can program your navigation" and "always-on unlimited LTE hotspot". My wife is excited about it because always on-lte means wireless entertainment for the kids, a "safety" net incase we have a crash (but we drive nearly exclusively inner city miles, and within that group, nearly exclusively the same 5 mile stretch of main-roads). I'm flabbergasted by people's convenience over security mindset, or maybe it's the pseudo physical security offered by such overwatch programmes vs. the digital privacy security.