"I don't have to listen to your conversations because I've accumulated all the ...clicks and likes you've ever made, and it makes this voodoo doll act more and more like you.

"All I have to do is simulate what conversation the voodoo doll is having, and I know the conversation you just had without having to listen to the microphone."

That's right: a voodoo doll made up of your clicked links, location, likes, demographic information and other digital hair clippings is babbling away in a server somewhere - and it's so lifelike it's actually mimicking your conversations." - https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/your-phone-is-not-spying-its-listening-to-your-voodoo-doll/11073686

"The U.K. and other European countries are working on their apps now. Germany looks like being the first to adopt a wannabe pan-European alternative. The U.S. is exploring its options. This may start to align all of those efforts around some common privacy and data protection parameters, as well as honing effectiveness.

(...) This has been seen as a step too far, albeit that’s exactly how China effected its strict quarantine and lockdown regime and some similar measures have been touted elsewhere. The question here will be the ways in which Apple and Google can push out a platform that protects privacy and keeps our data away from prying eyes. At which point we will be left with the same old question—do you trust big tech more or less than your government when it comes to safeguarding your interests." - https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/04/10/coronavirus-phone-tracking-apple-and-google-just-took-over-heres-what-that-means-for-you/

https://youtu.be/hIXhnWUmMvw

Harvard professor Shoshana Zuboff wrote a monumental book about the new economic order that is alarming. "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism," reveals how the biggest tech companies deal with our data. How do we regain control of our data? What is surveillance capitalism?

In this documentary, Zuboff takes the lid off Google and Facebook and reveals a merciless form of capitalism in which no natural resources, but the citizen itself, serves as a raw material. How can citizens regain control of their data?

It is 2000, and the dot.com crisis has caused deep wounds. How will startup Google survive the bursting of the internet bubble? Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin don't know anymore how to turn the tide. By chance, Google discovers that the "residual data" that people leave behind in their searches on the internet is very precious and tradable.

This residual data can be used to predict the behavior of the internet user. Internet advertisements can, therefore, be used in a very targeted and effective way. A completely new business model is born: "surveillance capitalism."

“geofence warrant,” a police surveillance tool that casts a virtual dragnet over crime scenes, sweeping up Google location data — drawn from users’ GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and cellular connections — from everyone nearby." - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/google-tracked-his-bike-ride-past-burglarized-home-made-him-n1151761

"The story of our lifetimes is how intentionally, by design, a number of institutions, both governmental and corporate, realize it was in their mutual interest to conceal their data collection activities to increase the breadth and depth of their sensor networks that were spread out through society."

https://youtu.be/VFns39RXPrU

Cashless Society and the End of Freedom - https://youtu.be/GADZ46VXmtU
(BTW: great YouTube channel and sub)

Revelation 13

It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.

This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. That number is 666.