ActuallyRuben

Maybe I'm too European to understand your point, but my phone selling my call and message history would be just as outrageous.

Is the user aware that the data they synchronize to their car, a machine that they own, is sold by the car manufacturer to advertisers? Do they explicitly agree to the selling of their data, when selecting what connectivity they want?

Can you blame the user for making a choice, when they're not told the consequences of that choice?

Mattermost, it might not be the best feature-wise, but it's open source, and a university can host it's own server with SSO

That Wikipedia page seems to suggest that the director was using it as an excuse to peek at their nipples himself.