There was a piece on the evening news yesterday about black boxes in automobiles which record everything you do with the car and everything the car does by itself. They have been used to convict people following accidents. But when one family wanted the data as evidence to sue the car maker, the company refused to give out the information. A court ruled that the black box and the data it contained belonged to the car owner and not the car maker and ordered it turned over to the owner. At issue in this case was a possibly defective airbag that caused great injury to a passenger in the car.
My old car does not have a black box. If I buy a new car I don't want it to have a black box. I don't want my car telling tales on me. Can you disable or remove these things?