[jevoten]

> Yes it means Volvo now knows all of my travel history.

No it doesn't. The features you listed could be implemented without the data reaching Volvo's servers at all, or reaching them in only an encrypted form, to which only you have the key. A better way to phrase it is that Volvo allows you to track your journeys, and they spy on you. The two features are separate.

95% of the time, the privacy-convenience tradeoff is nothing but a false excuse for spyware.

[raxxorrax]

Agreed. Since people don't seem to care to share private details with giant companies, those that do get shafted by user behavior like this.

It has everything to do with what you allow companies to do. A few years ago the standard mobile app behavior wouldn't be acceptable on Desktop. User expectations have suffered since then.