I can believe that - after the Snowden revelation on BigTech's close ties with the US Intelligence service, the increasing public awareness to invasive data col

I can believe that - after the Snowden revelation on BigTech's close ties with the US Intelligence service, the increasing public awareness to invasive data collection and governments creating privacy focused legislation to minimise said data collection and enforcing data localisation laws that would make it illegal to store and process personal data in foreign countries, an artificially created pandemic that necessitated people to quarantine themselves and force all services through the internet / BigTech could indeed be a partial last ditch effort to force countries to create better internet infrastructure and collect commercial, personal and government data on every global citizen, from every country. China and US are possible suspects, with US being the most likely one.