I can operate the car as I see fit once I take posession of it.

Whether the camera can continuing spying is up to me if the car is mine.

If the vendor has other ideas, they will lose in court.

The best they can do is try to condition services like warranty repairs, or software updates on my compliance, but that has to be tested. They may be compelled to provide some minimum level of service no matter what.

In other words, what's mine is mine to control.

They would need to rent the car instead of selling it if they didn't like letting go of it.

I am already generous. I don't feel the slightest need to be polite or generous to someone or some entity, or a process, I didn't like.