Having set the scene for why and how those who control the ways of the world feel the justification to control us, let’s come back to the data that defines us — especially our health, our values and our physical movements.

When it comes to your geographic movements, whenever we move across borders, we’re tracked at immigration. That’s been the case for years but data are getting ever more joined up internationally and AI is being used to evaluate it in ways that didn’t previously exist.

A couple of examples. Here’s the global data on asylum seekers to the nearest five individuals. And here are the estimates for illegal immigrants around the world — the ones who were intent on not being recorded.

What about your movements within the country you live in? Ever used Google Maps or the equivalent? Well, that’s how they see what we’re up to.

Google watched as we obeyed or disobeyed lockdowns and published its findings in its Community Mobility Reports. 

When we do our weekly food shop — who gets out data? If you are enticed into a reward card because you’ve been attracted by the possibility of perks, think how your shopping choices get linked to your address, you and all the other associated data.

What about any fitness trackers you might be using?

Your heart rate, your weight, your height, your age and your physical activity expenditure, all tell any party that has your data a lot about your health status. Have you read the small print of the company that holds your data?

Ah — you use a Fitbit — and where does your data end up? Google? Actually yes, because, guess what? Fitbit was bought by Google in January 2021.

There are myriad other ways people are being tracked, with accompanying privacy and confidentiality breaches. In fact, data breaches are now commonplace. Examples include energy smart meters, and search engines with cookies. Using these are optional, not compulsory.

Big Social — including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter — also play a crucial role in our surveillance (if we use these platforms). That’s how they monitor protests and feed information to police.

It’s how their AI systems crack down on information they deem as counter-productive to their aims, including scientifically accurate and relevant information on matters such as vaccination injuries, that are censored after being designated as “medical misinformation,” regardless of their accuracy.

All in all, the game plan is becoming ever more clear. There’s a small group of people who’ve got a well-developed, weakly justified plan, to control us. A big part of this plan is to get us to do certain things that keep us enslaved to a system that prevents us from being truly independent and autonomous.

It also entices us to spend our hard-earned money or taxes on things that maintain the status quo. That includes maintaining the current dominance of pharmaceutical corporations, banks and food suppliers, to name just a few.

Big Tech including companies like Amazon are increasingly becoming actors in the healthcare sector as the digital, tech, health and big data worlds progressively fuse ever closer together. Big Social and Big Media have become major facilitators.

The more data we give away to companies and organizations that have little respect for data privacy, the more power and independence we relinquish. It’s a very slippery slope.