A conspiracy is always possible of course, but people really do tend to put off what isn’t an immediate problem until it’s a disaster.

Fukushima springs to mind. The plant had been warned more than a decade before the disaster that an earthquake in the wrong place would result in catastrophe and didn’t do anything about it, and lo and behold…

As an added bonus, you get overt spyware to wear around your neck so it can listen to and log your every conversation.

Hey cool, another reason to continue never using Facebook.