[olliej]

If you read the original lawsuit, the issue is that the car's infotainment system is set to forward/display messages and calls from your phone, and that that information is stored or logged persistently, and that can't be deleted/cleared by the user.

The claimed invasion of privacy is that a person with the diagnostic tools and physical access to your car can extract those logs.

Presenting this as "car manufacturers can steal your text and call logs" is disingenuous.

Don't get me wrong, it's clearly not a great thing for the car to be doing (especially in the context of rental cars for instance) but it isn't the catastrophe people are claiming.