At a time when we‘re learning more and more about the vast level of surveillance by the NSA, Ford‘s global VP of marketing and sales, Jim Farley, made some monumentally stupid comments at CES recently, claiming that the company knows every driver who breaks the law, thanks to GPS devices in cars. After realizing how bad that looked, he insisted he only meant „hypothetically“ in talking about the kinds of things that could be done in the future.

Of course, in between point A and point B, you have to imagine someone at the NSA rushed down to the FISA court seeking a Section 215 bulk „business records“ order from every American car company for „mere metadata“ on every driver in America, right? Just joking. Maybe.