The basic idea is that you build a dossier on everyone. You discover what kind of food they eat, where they live, The size and makeup of their family, their sexual preferences, pregnancies, what kind of porn they watch, where they shop for groceries, where they shop for electronics. You tie together purchases with their credit card to purchases in other apps or even brick and mortar stores. You figure out where they owe money with their education looks like. You look at these things even altogether at some point in your life and go why the hell do I care.

Then 20 years down the road when Chinese companies start pushing out American banks all of a sudden you can’t get a loan for a house or a car . Or maybe you’re going for a job at some point in this data is leaked back out now it’s part of your indelible history.

Perhaps somebody takes it all and throws it into a large language model, All of a sudden they’ve got clarity into your post history on all social media even stuff you thought was private because they know your phone serial number or your home IP address.

Corporations and governments don’t have any business knowing about your private life. They shouldn’t get to make decisions based on your private choices and preferences.