In 2017 I did my final trip to China, Taiwan, and Vietnam to inspect dozens of factories and engineering support sites that were engineering and manufacturing pretty much all the tech devices the world uses. In one visit to FOXCONN (they make all the Apple iPhones and other devices), our team was given an IoT (‘Internet of Things’) demo in front of a wall of screens displaying various aspects of life. After 30 seconds of 10 of us standing and watching, the host explained they now had a record of who we were, what our phones we logged on to, who we were standing next to, what we recently bought, where we recently travelled to, what our eyes were looking at, etc. All of this with facial-recognition technology and pretty much open scanning of anyone’s mobile phone Bluetooth, WIFI, and cellular data. In addition to this, the host explained that all their workers were tracked with this system, including their ‘health status’, via a QR-code tracking app that they had to update. There was no specific health issue at the time, just a generic status that had to be updated and kept ‘green’ for ‘allowed’ and if ‘red’, they had to report to officials for some unexplained ‘correction’. Their pay and ability to purchase items was also tied to this status.