> > This includes ICE cars made after 2018 that have ODB3 and send GPS, emission, speed and other data to 3rd parties.

> I googled for this and could find no info. Please give a reference for this claim.

I can't even seem to find any reference to odb 3 existing at all in the first place. So yeah any link would be very much appreciated

I'd assume they meant OBD3

http://straighttalkautomotive.com/articles/have-you-heard-of...

It's mostly about surfacing the codes via a screen in the car instead of having a generic check engine light and needing an external scanner.

As far as I can tell, it was never mandated. Most posts about it are from ~2011.

In fact all the links to forums discussing this appear to have been wiped from Google and Bing. Perhaps this topic is off limits for now. I can still find the older articles talking about privacy concerns, but the forums where people were explaining how to disable it have vanished.