Does anyone know about the legality of removing the built-in sim cards from your car, specifically in Australia?

I don’t intend on using any car smart-features when I get one. For context, I’ve never owned a car. When I do get one though, I intend to remove the sim card to prevent the car’s location from being constantly tracked. All I care about in terms a cars functionality is a radio, a CD drive (Yes, I use CD’s), and Bluetooth audio, so I don’t think removing the sim card should affect this much, if at all. Any knowledge and advice would be appreciated, thankyou!

Update: What I was referring to is an eSim, which appears not to be in the form of a physical card. Even so, if possible, I would like to disable the functionality of this eSim assuming the car I purchase has one in-built. From my research, I cannot find anything that explicitly forbids disabling or removing Sims.

    • Akasazh@feddit.nlEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      It’s really counter productive that they require a vehicle identification number for a lookup…

      • TazerfaceEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Easy to take a phone to a used car lot and enter a few vins

        • Akasazh@feddit.nlEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          Not as easy as being able to look it up with make and model name from the comfort of my own desk chair

      • TazerfaceEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        There are basically two classes of cars.

        A “hard drive on wheels” which records events encase of an accident - a black box.

        The other is a “smartphone on wheels”. These are the cars that have an eSim with a full-time internet connection.