Yup, she could easily fly in chartered jets where nobody would know where she was or fly in a jet that’s owned by a shell company. 

Elon really really wanted to sue the bejeezus out of that kid too, but he quickly found out from his massive stable of lawyers that it would be immediately thrown out, because as the article states, he’s only posting information that is already publicly available. He is literally doing nothing wrong. Now if you want…

Swift’s legal team sent Sweeney a cease-and-desist letter, warning that the singer will “have no choice but to pursue any and all legal remedies” if he doesn’t quit his “stalking and harassing behavior,”

The claim is not that it’s never been done - it relatively trivial to do from a technical standpoint. The claim is that the big fish who are at the top of the list in terms of being monitored both by regulators, industry watchdogs, technical researchers, and customers are doing it when it’s against the law to do so.…

Speaking as a guy who used to write ad servers for a living ... I’ve had to explain what’re you saying here over and over and over to people. You sum it all up very well. I like to thing that at a certain level of intelligence and self-awareness, intelligence is actually knowing what information about your own…

The fact that you can’t see how circular this is honestly blows my mind. Statistically, you have to think about how many artists are on your playlist. If it’s one you’ve made, it contains all artists that you think / talk about anyway. It’s not that crazy that you might discuss an artist you like, and then have that…

The point is that your assertion that you’ve “never seen” something on your Facebook feed is a) unverifiable but also b) almost certainly false. Your brain filters an unfathomable amount of information every day and rejects almost all of it without it ever reaching your conscious perception. The idea that you are…

I just want to say I appreciate your format here.

Can you enlighten us with your super sane response to driving distracted for 30-40 seconds (~half a mile or so on the freeway)? 

There are more answers than just “you search for more than you think you do” to explain eerie ad appearances. I expect people will also reject these explanations, even though there’s never been even a single instance of a substantiated claim of “listening” advertising:

30-40 seconds so .5-.6 miles as he was on a freeway and going at least 60. what can possibly happen in that distance. That you are relying on your friends to notice tell you and then you react to.

Even if this is a skit, and he made with friends, the roads arent closed off, he sure as fuck isnt a professional, and he should lose his license permanently. If you are too fucking stupid to drive you are not allowed to. Driving isnt a right it is a privilege.

Yeah I dunno. Is my phone microphone being used to sell me cologne? Probably not. Have phones been used by spooky dudes overseas to develop target packages on persons of interest?

...abso-fuckin-lutely

But facts don’t matter to some people, they just believe whatever dumb shit they want to believe.

9 times out of 10, these assholes end up KILLING the people they hit while surviving themselves.

While we think that advertisers just like to waste money and all that, it’s extremely cost prohibitive to mine recorded audio data, especially when current methods are extremely efficient and good at what they do. Just about all of the weirdly specific advertising you get is due to where you’re at/where you’ve been…

I work in digital advertising and yes, obviously this is a myth (or I’d be using it). It happens to me now and again as well - it’s just a coincidence. Sometimes it’s because whoever you were with has used your wifi to do a search or whatever.

Of course it was intentional. He had the VR headset, and he had a separate camera documenting his egregious endangerment of everyone around him.  This deserves just as much justice as the guy who filmed himself crashing his airplane.

Put other drivers at risk, and their passengers. Parents with kids. Just as bad as DUI. What a complete POS.

100 years. Prison.