To read this, gimme your financial details

... or your photo ID - passport or driver's licence

Looking through YouTube, I found this:

I wanted to find out how deeply China has penetrated my country’s economy. So I clicked on the vid and got this:

Okay, I can tell you I’m over 18. Not as though I’m looking for porn or beheading videos, you understand - but you know that already, this hurdle is item-specific.

But no, my word isn’t good enough:

YouTube and its owner Google are the two most-visited sites on the internet, with an unthinkably large databank. Do you think I would trust them with this kind of information? I don’t even allow Siri or Alexa into my home.

How long before the Mother Of All Data Hacks?

And why this video?

Maybe it’s because the Department of Homeland Security has been working hand in glove with tech platforms, not just to grab info on you but to influence the ‘narrative’, censor and distort what you get to see:

https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/11/01/how-big-tech-became-an-arm-of-the-state/

‘Homeland Security’? When the current US government is pushing hard to get us all killed in a nuclear war?

Vulgarly, my advice to Big Brother is take a long run up and GFY.