It is sad. It’s the nature of the beast; oversight is as weak as water, foresight limited, opportunities for misuse and insecurity boundless. Trusted organisati

It is sad. It’s the nature of the beast; oversight is as weak as water, foresight limited, opportunities for misuse and insecurity boundless. Trusted organisations have become the frontmen for all this bullshit, and people are frankly being conned en masse. The problem with all these “atoms for peace” style big data initiatives is that they must naively ignore the weaponisation of data to justify their benefits. Our civilisation having access to big data is like a Neolithic people trying to handle uranium. Not only are we ill equipped to mitigate the dangers involved, we don’t even fully understand what they are yet. Perhaps one day our species will evolve to the point where we can make use of these wonderful technologies without blowing our society apart in the process. Until then, absence of data is better than presence of mind.