The author righty concludes: Technocrat "elites today who fear nationalism are working toward a much more alarming and damaging post-nationalist world of unfreedom and uniformity."
As a Technocracy, China is following requirements of the Technocracy Study Course to the letter: track all energy use, every movement of people or goods, and all behaviors. This is the face of Scientific Dictatorship and the same movement is alive and well in America.
Where specific regulations are unclear or missing, TSA/DHS screeners will overstep the larger considerations like the Fourth Amendment that limits warrantless search and seizure and without probable cause. Just because you are in an airport doesn't mean the Constitution is totally suspended.
Amazon's says its Rekognition AI system "indistinguishable from magic" but it now offers it for nominal fees to law enforcement at all levels, from local city police and sheriff offices to the FBI. There are currently no national laws regulating the use of facial recognition.
DHS use of DNA testing is a slippery slope for the rest of American society. Even is safeguard policies are put into place to protect American citizens, those policies can just as easily be changed. Thus far, Congress has not entered the discussion.
Utility companies are wedging their way into regional governance to facilitate the installation and implementation of smart city technology throughout a region. Note the article states "co-lead", which means they are not the main driver of regionalization.
Since 1973, the Atlantic Council has been a hotbed of Trilateral Commission members and initiatives. Founded by David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Commission resuscitated historic Technocracy and fed it to the United Nations as Sustainable Development. Today, both are steeped in UN initiatives.
The NGO Bycs is promoting the election of 'Bike Mayors' in cities around the world in order to get people out of their cars altogether in favor of bicycles. This has been a general initiative of Agenda 21 since 1992.
Stories of resistance against biometric schemes are seldom seen in established media because Big Tech lawyers head off such stories by bullying outlets with legal threats. Monsanto and Big Pharma turned this into an art form.
The upcoming UN Biodiversity Conference is to nature what the Paris Conference was to global warming. The outcome will extend the 1,100 -page Global Biodiversity Assessment from 1995 and specify all human behaviors that are necessary to 'rescue' nature.