This article is correct to state: "But if human rights concerns aren’t enough to move U.S. policymakers, there’s another reason to act: Exporting surveillance equipment enables digital authoritarianism and hurts U.S. national interests." However, TN readers know that Technocrats don't care about U.S. national interests!
Unchecked surveillance-for-profit is upon us, but is driven as much by Technocracy as by Capitalism itself. Technocrats are data-hoarders who can never get enough data nor exhaust their drive for analysis of collected data.
Failed and abandoned experiments aside, Universal Basic Income continues to be promoted by Technocrats around the world. India's smallest state, Sikkim, is launching the largest trial ever with 610,577 citizens getting "free" money.
Business Insider writer get's it right: "President Xi Jinping's vision of a China led by the Communist Party that he chairs is a global technocracy". There is no other option or description of China that fits so well. Xi is exporting China's Technocracy to the whole world.
Unlike Americans, Europeans are not reticent to openly discuss Technocrats and Technocracy in light of their current struggles. France's Technocrats are learning a hard lesson about what happens with over-manipulated citizens.
Although this is a lower court, it sets a precedent for privacy that is urgently overdue now that fingerprint and facial scanning are commonly used unlock tools on smart phones. Police will now have to secure warrants before searching a suspects phone.
War-minded Technocrats within DARPA have one answer for wiping out the enemy: autonomous machines. When DARPA first released Sea-Hunter, there were pledges that it was only for surveillance and not killing. The flip-flop was easily foreseen.
Technocrat engineers are attempting to disrupt education by measuring student attention/focus and giving 'teachers' a window into the mind. Not surprisingly, China jumped at the opportunity for mass testing on 1.2 million students.
The quest for immortality is as old as human existence, but has taken on a modern form in Transhumanism that is just as superstitious and silly as the Pharaohs in ancient Egypt. It will just as certainly fail in the end.
A fierce battle is raging between DNA Technocrats as to the best way to collect DNA from the population: should it be the professional medical community or consumer services like 23andMe? Either way, your data can and will be weaponized against you.