All I’m saying is that you can turn it off... We live in a surveillance state, and we want everything for free. When something is free then “we” are the product being sold, typically to advertisers. It’s a fact of life and unless you take hugely inconvenient measures it’s hard to avoid being recorded continually, being tracked. If you really don’t like it then leave your slave beacon at home. Your ISP and cellphone provider have pretty much everything on you anyway...
They cannot see the future, nor how people can change from following the laws. From memory skynet was a network of military satellites, a joint project between US & UK (during early 90's). On a side note facebook had two AI computers literally created their own language & went rouge. To which they were then turned off. Now this takes me back to 'wargames movie or better still.. Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)