How do you write an article about this and not mention the GDPR or EU privacy laws?

>"It’s hard to figure out exactly how much data a modern car is collecting on you"

You are a globally operating news agency. You can absolutely get some GDPR requests in and look at it. What kind of reporting is this? "We don"t know, but we also have not tried the one way which forces companies to answer this question".

BMW is a German company, just ask them for the information they have on you and they are forced to give it to you.