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So that the amazing scientists get appropriate public recognition.

Having the ability to choose between 0$ and anything more than 0$ ?

In India, a politicial party can legally and anonymously give money to a political party.

The public lined up behind Adolf Hitler as well. So I don't think there is a disconnect there.

"Leaking" data they are supposed to have is not anywhere close to secretly recording user audio. They have plausible deniability with what you hear on news. There is no deniability when they are caught recording users. "Carelessness" does not lead an app to go rogue and start listening and transcribing audio.

Like I said, the problem I see with theory is that it doesn't hold ground even with all the assumptions one should be expected to make.

As for NSA, none of their surveillance was happening on the device. So that again is not the same as this theory.

It's not as simple as that. Owing to the larger populace that India has, the cost is being shared amongst consumers. The magic being that bandwidth is oversubscribed. As in say 20 users share the same resource, so if all 20 users are online they get only 5% of the promised bandwidth.

So facebook does speech recognition in realtime for every android device out there and share it in realtime with the many ad networks. Someone is really screwed up at facebook to share such an incriminating secret or business leverage (depending on how you want to see it) with competitors.

The conspiracy theory doesn't seem to hold ground.

One could shoot everything on a desktop and search for dog toys on another device on the same network/IP. I'd bet the guy is trolling.

You're assuming that 2038 would be same or "better" than 2018. I'd argue it's possible that 2038 could be more closer to 1960 than 2018.

Our current lifestyle is definitely not helping.