Wow!
Maybe I’m cynical but I bet they just got a slap on the wrist over it. I don’t want to be over litigious but if there were painful consequences for that kind of thing they’d have much better incentives to not even collect it.
I know some semi-modern cars can have the connectivity disabled by pulling a fuse that powers the cellular modem. I can not confirm or deny if I did that with my own car 😇