The rationale I'm using for Ford owning it is there is a compelling argument that ownership as the effect of two factors, custody and control, as it applies to

The rationale I'm using for Ford owning it is there is a compelling argument that ownership as the effect of two factors, custody and control, as it applies to data today could apply to the car, where if Ford can disable the vehicle, it has control of it, and the custody the driver has is secondary. Leasing companies are different because they license the vehicle to you for a term, whereas loan financing means it's yours. I'm not a lawyer at all, however much of my work on privacy and security has been about reconciling technology architecture and implementations with privacy and other laws and regulations, and security architecture is about allocating risk between counterparties in a technology solution, so from that view, this could be reasonably interpreted as a predatory technology.