Preface 1: Data danger

Published

28 Apr 2026 19:48

Modified

15 May 2026 11:42

I had a reason to write this book. That reason is to let others know how to move their personal and business systems away from US products like Windows because they are dangerous.

In-house I call it the “Big Web Project”. In a moment of pure genius I thought to call the book The Big Web Book and the website bigweb-book.com. Who would have thought!

Joking aside, we all urgently need to do something to protect our digital safety, predominantly because a few politicians have placed us all, including our children, in extreme danger.

Data danger

I live in the UK. Born and bred there, early ’50s Westminster. Well travelled. Seen changes. I’m old.

I’ve seen UK and European politicians continuously mix up society to dishonourably manipulate their votes. This happens in many western democracies. We don’t need to look to far, do we USA?

Last week our Starmer Labour government was trounced, absolutely drubbed. A nasty and wicked core were those politicos who attacked the people who built the country— whilst giving away free money and services to mostly recent incomers because they were thought most likely to support the Labour vote.

The present government has, like their predecessors, also given away our data for little more than political gain (and probably pay to do so).

United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) is free for all. Our politicians brought in a USA data collection company with access to medical records to manage NHS for “us”. What data company? Palantir. Yes, that Palantir,1 possibly one of the most dangerous companies in history, led at the time of writing by Alex Karp.2 Search him in your browser: that is the type of personality our data is given to. We are right to be worried.

Why?

Israeli’s have perfected a form of warfare involving profiling a target’s personal data to stalk their online presence (particularly via their families and friends). With geolocation via telephones and further data intelligence from USA also triangulate approximate position: the target’s own together with that of family and friends.

On a sunny day, or balmy evening, a little girl and her brother play and laugh. They are happy. Adults watch, contentedly. A few seconds later they all lay in pieces.

An Israeli mentality blitzed the whole building and neighbourhood to kill one target. Or is it to kill that target and the women who cannot then produce children, or the children who cannot then grow with the memory of their loss.

The Israeli cyclic technique is to harass victims, often kill them, to move them from land Israelis want to thieve for themselves. When enough victims are killed and maimed, when enough of them lost their home of generations and everything of the life they knew, some are so despondent they strike back in frustration and anger. That is the negotiating position the Israelis want to promote so they can say they are acting in self defence. It is a dishonest position of the most appalling form of cowards, relying on evil intent that is nothing to do with the Ten Commandments Israelis claim as their right to carry out this evil.3 And no doubt there will be many pro-Israelis who will engage in excuses and manipulative vitriol in attempts to divert the facts placed here. If past performance is anything to go by, they would include false claims about my religion (I am multi-religious for good reason). 4

3 A note of caution… If it is to do with Moses, then Israelis are duty bound to also attack and take south Lebanon, west Jordan and south-west Syria over time. This guarantees war in the region for decades and likewise a drain on the USA, who Israeli followers have a stranglehold upon at many levels. Israel defending itself is most unlikely. It will need funds, much of which could come from harvesting personal data. Worldwide economic chaos upon most countries and their people will follow in waves for this pursuit. Use your search engine to discover maps about ancient lands in the area (“Moses and the promised land overlaid map”).

4 A lifelong asthmatic, my heart has stopped on more than one occasion. Most people only get one chance to discover what happens next.

Extrapolate that Israeli mentality to many US digital and social media organisations— and their leaders, like Karp. So many USA companies are recipients of significant fines for profile collection, but without anything compelling to stop them whilst governments feed their greed.

  • Clearview AI: facial scraping from Instagram, Facebook and others5
  • Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp): Especially the Max Schrems case that led to European GDPR6
  • Yahoo!:7 Involved in the largest data breach in history (3 billion accounts) and accused of secretly harvesting and monetizing user data
  • LinkedIn:8 Fined in 2024 for violating GDPR by using personal data for behavioural analysis without proper consent
  • Uber Technologies Inc: Fined in 2024 for transferring European driver data to the US without adequate safeguards, violating GDPR9

5 “Clearview AI,” Wikipedia, March 30, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clearview_AI&oldid=1346177192.

6 “Max Schrems,” Wikipedia, March 28, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Max_Schrems&oldid=1345867169.

7 “Yahoo data breaches,” Wikipedia, March 27, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yahoo_data_breaches&oldid=1345628175.

8 Wikipedia contributors, “LinkedIn,” in Wikipedia, May 8, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=LinkedIn&oldid=1353193970.

9 “EU: Uber Hit by Record €290 Million Fine for Failing to Properly Safeguard Drivers’ Personal Data,” Business; Human Rights Centre, accessed May 11, 2026, https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/eu-uber-hit-by-record-290-million-fine-for-failing-to-properly-safeguard-drivers-personal-data/.

Of course, these are only a few examples. Ordinary people may have expected executives of these companies, and those who trade with them, to operate with a level of honour suitable to society but my-oh-my, look what they did!

When trust is breached, everything is breached.

These practices by executives of digital data are common. Far from respecting clients, subscribers and employees, their quasi-criminal post-verdict improvements represent the result of manipulated “Terms of use”. By lawyers of course (pronounced liars in parts of Scotland). Like Starmer. That’s worrying, not least because there are many judges who left the bench in disgrace. And there is currently a senior judge in Scotland’s capital city who has with another committed a six figure fraud but is protected by the bench from prosecution, lest it embarrasses them.10 As for police authorities, even if they were competent on the subject, they are significantly disinterested.

10 Detailed evidence available of course

It is when we begin to understand the evidence of data practice, the ethics and integrity of those who control data, and the lack of legal integrity or protection, that we begin to realise where hidden dangers can emerge from. In a data-driven society where each of us are profiled we, especially computer and data scientists, can envisage…

  • Machines programmed to cease medical or care needs to those who don’t deserve it, or keep alive in unwilling discomfort those who can afford to pay
  • Machines programmed to analyse whether we should get employment or not (LinkedIn and Indeed users beware)
  • Street scanning with arrest by moving machine and vehicle forfeiture for unpaid taxes or fines
  • Moving and flying machines for targeted war and pseudo-war assassination
  • Machine apprehension and removal of immigrants whose long ago original applications were fraudulent (as when documents are observed to be fraudulent, failing to integrate with society, or pay sufficient taxes)
  • Intelligent machine AI biochemistry development of substances designed to reduce over–population (human and pets like dogs)
  • Machine-targeted energy switch off for unpaid bills (including elderly and infirm)
  • Secret data analysis of historic income and property to detect, collect and forfeit money and property related to unexplained wealth11
  • Periodic contribution taxes based upon wealth over previous x-years

11 Politicians present and past, vape shop operators and organised criminals beware!

Far fetched?

Keep in mind that, in 2026, China has intelligent moving machines running half marathons, buddying police on patrol and serving in restaurants. Chinese courts use GPT-judges for common cases. Chinese authorities seemingly excel in this practical adoption of data-driven machinery.

To data scientists, the thought “But I haven’t done anything wrong, why should I worry?” is about as dumb as jumping out of an aeroplane at altitude— without a parachute. When we actively have our own state and suppliers trading our whole personalities, our souls, via consumer data usage (see the Target pregnant teenager12), where do we go for protection?

12 “Target Corporation,” Wikipedia, May 10, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Target_Corporation&oldid=1353540272.

Between 2026 and 2030 the sudden change in societies resulting from AI and intelligent machines will become apparent. Looking back from 2031-2035, humans will wish they had taken precautions.

About 1974 I was a volunteer with the Royal Observer Corps. We met in an underground bunker and plotted nuclear bursts, fallout, half-wave decay and the like. We occasionally had practice emergencies to arrive at critical venues. I learned a lot about nuclear bombs. We had a sign in the regional bunker, built to house about 30 people underground for two years: “At the first sign of a bright blue flash, bend down, place your head between your knees, and kiss your arse goodbye!” Today’s data danger is far worse. If abused, it could quickly get to the point of extreme danger to humanity. Silently. Stealthily. No alarms. No big bangs.

How do I know?

It did not occur to me, upon setting out on this particular journey, that the reason for this project would cost me so much time in writing, frustration when researching references, and realisation of too many decades passionately devoted (wasted?) in digital technology.

I was there at the beginning. Hence part of that reason popped out from witnessing fish-lipped morons who pollute decades of Internet communications effort by my peers. Many of those peers are, and were, geniuses of logic. Humanity owes a duty to protect their combined effort from worse than fishy-lips: predators who will now use digital technology for conquest of one kind or another, like for ripping out your soul with data profiling and cyber slander.