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Nope, still a privacy nightmare
Go ahead and explain. Cuz there's nothing internet connected on my car.
My parent's Hyundai had no customer-facing internet-related features on the car. Still had a cellular radio for telematics. A potential tell is an SOS button. (That's a non-issue since it's 3G now and that went bye-bye but 4G is going to be around a while)
But my similar age to your Focus, newer than the Sonata, Sorento had nothing that I could find. So it's possible.
Ford started shipping all of their cars with one in 2015. I linked an article showing that somewhere up there. I'll edit to post it here too.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/samabuelsamid/2015/11/17/ford-steps-into-the-vehicle-telematics-space-with-sync-connect/
Except I don't have sync connect. I have an old sync which as far as I can tell has no telemetry and is completely defunct considering it doesn't work with anything anymore.
I could waste my time explaining or you could Google it. Long story short is that there are many ways to send information that don't involve the internet at all, and you'd have to get a mid 90s car if you didn't want any data sent at all. They got worse in around 2012 when more protocols were added as well
Sounds to me like you're talking out your ass. Otherwise you could just explain it instead of telling me to google it. You did after all "waste your time" by even responding.