>cars in the UK/EU have no such privacy invading features If you say so.

Maybe if you buy the car with cash, but if you finance it you are leasing from a company that has definetly accepted all the terms and conditions to capture and sell all the telemetry to various parties

>without an explicit opt-in

check out at a modern volvo/audi/whatever, they are making it so difficult to say no every single time the screen is powered on