Thank goodness 2020 is finished. Hopefully 2021 will be better and that in this case not all of my predictions will come true.
– While there is a bit of a joke about simply asking Google if someone wants your personal information, tracking, tracing and personal data capture will increase this year. The other part of this prediction is that the social media giants are very likely to be broken up or at least curtailed in some way by many nations this year as well. The apparent contradiction is explained by greater government tracking, primarily justified by Covid. I’ve never had to register as I enter a store before but at the time of writing in the past week or so that has become a thing. The written record in a store is less trackable but many nations have built tracking apps that are required to be used in multiple locations…
