They are slowly advancing toward an Orwellian society,one that not only monitors their citizens, but also control's them as well. Sound far fetched ? In china you get assigned a "holistic rating of character" that follows you everywhere. If you don't buy toilet paper that the government favors, your character rating takes a hit. If you jaywalk, the police show up at your door right away. This is how
China does it Big data will destroy our liberty, freedom, and ultimately our finances. I recently read that to solve a budget crisis, a foreign government just electronically cleaned out it's citizen's bank accounts. Yup, just took all their money in an instant.
