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If I were to wager a guess; extrapolation. If say you live in Sweden, frequently visit the tax agency or social services, has the surname Alreihan, and frequent places like adult schools, mosques, and immigrant stores, chances are you're not an average Svensson. Most personal data is public records here in Sweden so it's quite easy to find out anyway.
I wouldn't put it past them to actively listen in on people. They help themselves to your geolocation too though, so if you say, drive to a protestant church with any sort of frequency, chances are you're a protestant. If they know your age and your income bracket, they might also just assign a profile to you. "This person is a WASP so they are likely conservative."
Yet, hah!
I don't know about Android, but Apple is really big on health guffins. So if you have an Apple Watch and use the Health app to record and track your data (it can record a lot, though they don't ask for dick size) then it's not completely outlandish that the car might request that data from your phone should you hook it up.
Though, it might just be something that the car manufacturer app asks for, because I'm unsure if Car Play can just pull health data like that. Third party apps can absolutely request access to your health data, so if you have a Tesla and use the Tesla app, they can totally request health data permissions and add that to your profile.
If you live in the US, most likely data brokers.
Really seedy industry centered around buying and selling your personal information, compiling public records from government sites to build a profile of your location, previous addresses, jobs, biological sex, given sex, phone numbers etc, and then cross referencing that with online data from ad trackers and targeting to build a more detailed profile of who exactly you are specifically.
This stuff doesn't even scratch the surface too.
US law enforcement has also been openly using data brokers to bypass certain privacy protections/rights granted to people who live in the US, where things like a warrant or subpoena would usually be necessary
citizenship status, immigration status, national origin
How?
So it actively listens in case someone says out loud they're a communist?
Soon AI will be watching my skin over time so my insurance can deny claims
I guarantee this means, in part, that they're literally measuring your dick