When I bought a new Ford F350 I spent many hours in online Ford forums trying to figure out how in the hell to disable the GPS tracking. Think I had managed to trace out the wires, but the electronics & wiring harness jungle nightmare gave me great pause and so decided to just walkaway and leave it be and will use an old late model 90s truck to carry out any human trash if needed. Plus when I bring the truck in to the dealership for routine maintenance and they hook up their diagnostic computer and discover something disabled (as in cut wires) it may void my warranty. I'm kidding of course (on the human trash), but it certainly gave me an uneasy feeling when I first learned about Ford's blackbox recording.
“World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.” — Marshall McLuhan, from Culture Is Our Business, 1970