Lead was out of most gasoline in the 70s. It is still available in some, for example airports. The big thing about the 90s was that was when teens and young adults didn’t grow up around it. It’s a long term poison.

It makes these kids easy marks for malware.

This is a lot bigger than the entertainment industry now. Creeping fascism and the trillion dollar surveillance capitalism industry are hellish bed buddies.

When a car is stolen, they typically get to sell another one, courtesy of the drivers insurance policy. They are incentivized to bad security.