Your daughter’s Google account can be closed without appeal. All the memories gone. This less likely to happen using Proton or Tuta.

Every scam ends up on the news. I doubt if we can warn a wider audience than that.

https://www.mrlube.com/

Sure. From my bank, credit card and Mr. Lube (auto service shop). I haven’t noticed anything that indicated my data ended up in a breach. Just a few companies that abused my trust and sent me spam.

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

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.

Airplane mode - callers can leave a message. VoIP - it’s connected via wifi or mobile data. I’m in Canada but the three times I checked where my IP says I am, it was in UK or NL. Of course there are alternative OSs for androids.

This site may help you pick a car without a full-time connection. https://vehicleprivacyreport.com/report/