This should have been embarrassingly obvious to anyone who took data collection and surveillance systems to their logical conclusion. "We" and "1984" gave away the answer to those who weren't smart enough to connect the dots themselves. Yet here we are, on a forum heavily skewed towards a population that helped build it, denying until their dying breath what they've done.
Yes indeed. And yet despite the fact it should have been obvious and that it should be really obvious right now, we are still moving full speed ahead into the Orwellian nightmare.
The good news is we won't find a replacement for fossil fuels, and we'll burn civilization and our planet to a crisp before we have a chance to lock in this eternal nightmare.