The global south is being surveilled into compliance and Silicon Valley calls it development - Silicon Canals

"A government in Africa, South Asia, or Latin America identifies a legitimate governance problem (financial exclusion, lack of identity documents, poor healthcare access). Silicon Valley firms, often backed by development finance from the World Bank or USAID, offer a digital solution. That solution requires mass data collection. The data flows to servers controlled by private companies, often incorporated in Delaware or the Cayman Islands. The host country gets a dashboard. The company gets a dataset worth billions."

"What it actually is: a new form of structural compliance, where populations with the least geopolitical power are enrolled into systems of surveillance they didn't design, can't audit, and frequently can't opt out of."

Silicon Valley firms partner with governments in Africa, South Asia, and Latin America to address legitimate governance challenges like financial exclusion and identity documentation. These digital solutions require mass collection of intimate personal data including biometrics, location history, and spending patterns. The data flows to servers controlled by private companies incorporated in Delaware or the Cayman Islands, while host countries receive only dashboards. This pattern represents structural compliance where populations with minimal geopolitical power are enrolled in surveillance systems they cannot design, audit, or opt out of. Large-scale implementations like India's Aadhaar system have enrolled over 1.3 billion people in biometric identification, demonstrating the massive scope of this data extraction architecture.

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