There is absolutely no reason why a precondition of driving an electric car should be having an app, sharing data with the manufacturer, or any of that nonsense

There is absolutely no reason why a precondition of driving an electric car should be having an app, sharing data with the manufacturer, or any of that nonsense. I agree, and it is even getting bad with gas cars. GM, Ford, and non-domestics just snarf data, with build in cellular modems, and more. The CEO of Ford was bragging about the revenue, at an earnings meeting, from selling this data. All tracking, data gathering, needs to be made 100% illegal. It is constantly abused, and literally weaponized against consumers, and their democracies.