Actually EVs collect a huge amount of information including video and audio of the participants. It’s a huge privacy issue regardless of manufacturer country but you obviously should distinguish the difference between a foreign country collecting information on your citizens compared to your own. Neither is good but one clearly has more authoritarian tendencies and less scruples about finding and coercing compliance with any means at their disposal.
Who taught your history and what does it say? What do you do day-to-day? Is life easy for you and is it the same/different to those around you? What form of media do you consume and where do you choose to get your information about the world from? Lastly why did you start this ama?