It's important to remember, it's not just China who is into mass surveillance technology - maybe i'm guilty of focusing too much on their exploits.

This is an interesting article on American Big Data company called Palantir. Came across them browsing the stock market. So far as the Covid K curve goes, Palantir is on the up-ramp, having increased 175% this year.

What do they do? Supply big data scraping algorithms to governments, the military, and mega-corporations.

https://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/land-and-expand-secretive-palantir-makes-its-ma...