Any partner that pays enough $$$ can likely do whatever they want. That is obvious by the fact that a year of driving history is displayed. If they didn't want to sell the data/access then they wouldn't be collecting such a long history of it. This is evil. I will avoid being forced to give this information at every possible turn and the companies doing this, and hiding how much they collect, should all be shut down.
That's absurd. Collecting and selling your data and allowing a third party to remotely lock your car are two very different things. I have no doubt car companies sell your data, I am extremely skeptical third parties can buy rights to control your car and if that ever happened, we'd all hear about it really fast.
Do you honestly think that they have a limit to what they will sell? I could easily imagine them selling this access to companies that repossess vehicles. An 'ownership dispute' fee that prevents your car from starting and grants additional access to the company. As soon as I typed that I couldn't stop thinking that that has to be a real thing they make real money on already. If it isn't then my guess it is only because they haven't thought about it. Companies will do anything they are explicitly allowed to do or have plausible deniability on to make money.
Yes, I think if they sold that it would have happened by now and you'd have heard about it. Law of big news applies. Also a quick Google would tell you Ford tried to patent this in 2023 and people were outraged over the idea so they dropped it. So I doubt some other car company is doing it and secretly getting away with it.
So it’s just Subaru.
Also I doubt any ad partners can disable your car (outside of vulnerabilities like this). Subaru can but that’s the case with most modern vehicles.