With Hyundai now starting to provide an on-star like service we can probably expect other manufacturers to do the same.

As much as I hate government regulation, it appears that they will need to look into some areas to protect our privacy.

However, I would prefer that they start with Negative option schemes used by magazines and many other companies. Come to think of it, On-Star automatically signs you up for continued service. You are unable to opt out of continued service on the website but are required to contact them by phone or the onstar system. To their credit, they do tell you how to cancel it without a lot of hunting to find the info.

I've just canceled my On-Star service. Next, I'm transferring banks to protest Bank of America's debit card fees.