If you installed the apps on a new “spam” profile on you phone would that isolate them for from the main profile?

How exactly do they collect info other than GPS?

How are people interacting with the “radio” that it’s given so much info?

Are new vehicles required to be connected to phone network to function?

What functionality is lost of not connected.

As a motorist who prefers to drive cheap cars that have a little tech as possible so that there is little to go wrong and what goes wrong I can fix myself I know nothing about the latest gen of cars

This has apparently being a thing for a long while. I read that in the past some models of BMW came with heated seats but the switch (and maybe a relay I’m guessing) why for unless the premium was paid. It was an early diy upgrade