Curious. I can see where some facts about the car would be really helpful for the nav system (e.g., velocity, steering angle -- allowing for dead reckoning when GPS is unreachable). As to the rest, it sounds like a data dump like that would enable third-party data recorders, which might be all kinds of useful to the tuner community.

Anyway, I refuse to believe that Porsche, which is part of VW and therefore has a remarkable amount of negotiating leverage with Google, wouldn't be able to reach an accommodation. Heck, VW cars are now shipping with Android Auto. So... I'm going to have to call B.S. on this privacy issue. There's something else going on here.

Related: http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/10/06/...uto-is-running/