In Ca is it legal for a finance co to secretly install a GPS tracking device on a clients vehicle & deny it?

I live in the state of Ca. & last week I financed a used car from a mid-sized used car lot. Eairler this evening they requested we bring the car in for them to take a few photos requested of them by the finance co. We didn’t make it there untill after the sun had set, and offered to bring the car back tomorrow when it was light out. They said that wasnt necessary and requested the keys to move car to lower level of lot to "photograph" under the shop lights. While waiting for our car and walking around the uppper sales lot to pass the time, my fiancie was able to see our car below and noticed mechanic working uo under the dash for a solid 10-15 min. (no one was taking photos). When we asked about the machanic we were told he was taking pix, & when we asked if they were installing a GPS in our vehicle, we were told "absolutly not", Knowing that finance Co’s have been knowen to install tracking devices in vehicles sold to individuals with crumby credit (for repo purposes) i demanded a stright answer from the salesmen in regards to our car. After alot of talking in circles we finally pulled a mostly TRUTHFULL answer out of the GM. And "Yes,-Indead" a GPS tracking device had been installed in our car. Is this legal? From the info i can find onlibne it appears that is legal, but laws chance from state to state, And if it is legal to secreatly track our every move (because we are concidered a "risk" with our very less then perfect credit), and then to not disclose this info to us upon our request? Sounds Like a violation of personal privacy rights to me.
Thank you for your answers, I’ll be waiting to read them.


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