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I would have On-Star if I felt I needed the services it provides. Instead of keeping it active "Just in case" I chose to cancel it for the following reasons.
As much as it's tracking features are benign and harmless to most, driving when and where I want and how I want, is my business and no-one elses. If I commit a traffic violation and am issued a citation, I'll take my lumps.
But I will not contribute to the percieved necessity of involuntarily contributing to some marketing strategy, statistical observations, etc., which will only contribute to inevitable junk mail and unwanted tele-marketing crap.
With out On-Star at least I can somewhat stem the tide of "Big Brother" watching me. The ways in which this techology can be used for good purposes, I think is far out-weighed by its potential for loss of personal privacy as well as future corporate/government engineering of our personal life-style and freedoms.
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