What harms will the law address? (You must have harm or there is no reason for law?)
Big Tech Isn’t Breaking Any Privacy Rules if There Aren’t Rules to Break
… Here’s something to think about. There are digital warehouses of information about you, and their inventory expands every time you use a popular social media app or web browser. These warehouses store and make accessible all kinds of details about you, big and small. Consider tidbits such as your address, phone number, aliases, relatives, political affiliation, resting heart rate, and preference for plant-based over cow’s milk.
All this data is for sale to anyone offering the right price. Some merchants buy your data to get you to try their new line of sneakers, and some use it to convince you to vote a certain way. Whatever their conversion goal, none of them are particularly transparent about where they’re collecting your information from and how they’re using it.
Simple and useful.
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3645789/how-digital-twins-improve-physical-systems.html
How digital twins improve physical systems
There is a long lineage of technologies and tools used to model the physical world, including drawings, diagrams, and CAD models. There are also many ways to use technology to model real-world systems and make predictions, including financial trading simulators, weather predictors, and traffic pattern models.
When you put these two capabilities together—combining a digital representation of a physical-world system and a model that simulates output conditions based on inputs drawn from the physical environment—you get a digital twin. A digital twin allows you to validate the system against a wide array of real-world situations.
Some truth?
Breaking Up Tech Is a Gift to China
Few issues unite both sides of the political divide more than anger at U.S. tech companies, whether for censorship of conservative viewpoints or for failing to counter misinformation online. In response to these concerns, legislation introduced in Congress would weaken the U.S. tech industry, ostensibly in the name of breaking up monopolies. Unfortunately, the various bills would hurt the U.S. and strengthen the hand of our greatest geopolitical rival, the People’s Republic of China.
(Related) If you track everything do you know everything about everything?
China’s Growing Access to Global Shipping Data Worries U.S.
China’s expanding grip on data about the world’s cargo flows is sparking concern in Washington and among industry officials that Beijing could exploit its logistics information for commercial or strategic advantage.
Even cargo that never touches Chinese shores often still passes through Beijing’s globe-spanning logistics networks, including through sophisticated data systems that track shipments transiting ports located far from China. Control over the flow of goods and information about them gives Beijing privileged insight into world commerce and potentially the means to influence it, say cargo-industry officials.
With ports clogged globally and shortages plaguing many industries, shipping data has become an enormously valuable commodity.
Interesting. Puts Russia in perspective.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-the-94-trillion-world-economy-in-one-chart/
Visualizing the $94 Trillion World Economy in One Chart
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