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But not in the UK or EU.

Need I say which law protects us..... the one a significant number of HN readers (a technical news site!) appear to remain in shocking ignorance of?

You can do this in the UK or EU if you like; you just need to have permission to do so from the data subject.

How does that work if the car's sold? The car itself doesn't know it's been sold.