But that requires to be able to identify the caller, and the lack of that ability is why we get so much spam in the first place.
So we must first get STIR/SHAKEN to work 100% of the time.

Ok, sure, and more EV cars have been sold than gas-powered cars sold during the roman empire.
Seriously though why chosen 2012?

Indeed, that's another form of disruption to the users: not being able to buy anything because everything requires Internet.

You mean "people's lives", don't you? Nothing like waking up in the middle of night because the toaster decided to play a video ad, or your parent being aware of your pregnancy thanks to baby product ads on the fridge.

If you're constantly swapping, why does it matter? One day you have an older battery, the next you have a newer one. As long as Gogoro ensure that the batteries have a minimum charge and regularly inspect them for damage, you get what you pay for.

For that matter, we do the same thing with propane tanks. When one gets a refill, one usually swaps their empty tank for a full one. And there is no guarantee that the full tank is "newer" compared to the empty one.

Then you didn't read the whole article either:

and the December 16th, 2020 update, which quotes Tillbrook saying he came up with that phrase in a conference in 1985.

... then links to an article that debunks it and says David Tilbrook is the actual author.

Keyword detection such as "Ok Google" or "Alexa" is not done on a server, it's done on a dedicated hardware directly on your device. You can easily extrapolate that if it is cost effective to have dedicated hardware for such a use, it cannot be efficient to be sending whole sentences to a server for analysis (although I admit that a keyword detection as an additional latency requirement which is not needed for ad purposes and which adds another incentive for hardware keyword detection).

And if you don't believe me about the power cost of the radio, compare the phone autonomy over a day with and without wifi and bluetooth enabled. Ideally, you would also compare between a radio in standby (up just enough to maintain a connection with the other end) vs an active radio (sending/receiving data).

How often it happens is not enough to be statistically significant. If you were talking about the popular card of the day, you would also necessary see a lot of ads about it. Moreover, to be able to discuss it, you must have read multiple articles online, or participated in forums talking about it, or are following some tech feeds. Those are why Google/Facebook/etc know about your interests, not because they are listening to your phone.

That's a lot of speculation right there. I've been working with wireless audio for close to two decades now (wireless speakers for sound systems). While it's for music and not voice, I'm still quite aware of what can and cannot be done with regard to sending audio over a radio.

- A phone cannot be spying at such detail constantly, this would consume too much power. Listening to one or half a dozen keyword can be done very efficiently. But the more keywords it listens too, the less power efficient it becomes. To detect the "exact boots", or something close enough that the "exact boots" would show in the ad, would required hundred, if not thousand of keywords, and likely some understanding of the context as well (natural language understanding). That's way to computely intensive to be done as a constant background process.
- Advertisers are not interested in the specific things that a single person wants. That would only benefit the sellers of that one item, instead all of the sellers of all kind of "western boots", driving down the price of the ad space.

More likely, your friend saw the same ad as you a few days/weeks before and bought the boots. You have the same interests as your friend. Ergo you should see a lot of the same ads as he does.
Or maybe your friend didn't see the ad per-se, but he was affected by the marketing campaign trying to sell those boots (e.g. "popular item"/"best seller" is an Amazon listing, word-of-mouth from other friends also affected by the campaign, user review in a youtube video, ...)

As long as the traffic goes through multiple non-cooperating agencies, then that's fine.That's the whole point of onion routing. Problems arise when the whole chain is controlled by only entity, which is, at least in part, what KAX17 seems to be trying.

Or just don't get a phone, just use smoke signals... actually no, with the wind, it could pollute your lungs and kill you. Just stop communicating instead.

I'm pretty sure the SFC lawyers are aware of all that.

I'm not one myself, but I think the reasoning is that there is a sale contract between licensee and end user, and if the end user is aware of the GPL license, they could reasonably expect that the access to the source code is part of that sale contract as well. If so, Vizio is then in violation and is sueable by the end user. The

SFC lawsuit would be a way to test that reasoning.

From the SFC announcement:

Do we know for sure that this is the real Jim Browning claiming to have been scammed? Maybe a scammer got his accounts!

Alternatively, do we know for sure that Jim Browning is not trying to scam us? That he is not pretending that he lost his accounts? After all the dark side is tempting and he's been playing with it for a long time!

Oh, I know that one!! It's like Japan hunting whales "for science" right!? Right?