My thought on that is that they needed a new location so their image didn’t just look like a modified version of another of the victim’s public images, so NK searched for a stock photo for a professional looking location. Ars has just located the stock image they started from.
My guess would be that they needed to get a mid-point between existing photos of the guy whose identity they stole and the guy that would show up in the video interviews.
I think it’s that the parent company took out huge loans to buy Redbox. And that’s the streaming service they setup has ongoing costs and overhead, like licencing. And the loans they took out to make their own content.
The actress was born in Cleveland, Ohio. So there’s that.
If Apple cares about protecting privacy they’d use an open, interoperable, cross-platform standard instead of just making cracks like, “just buy your Mom an iPhone.”
I’ll just leave this here: https://www.thunderbird.net/
A standard would reduce the barrier to entry, which would increase competition. Can’t have that.