Data colonialism now: harms and consequences

Data colonialism is the latest stage of colonialism: instead of land, it grabs human life in the form of data. This data extraction is radically different in scale and depth from data extraction in the past.
We get drawn into this data extraction in banal ways on platforms and on our devices, but this is only part of a much larger change in how business relates to human life through extraction.
This can't be fixed by reforming a few rogue cases, because this is a new landgrab on a truly colonial scale, affecting many sectors: even education, agriculture and health, the fundamental sectors for ensuring the quality of human life, are now dominated by tech corporations that use them to extra data on an industrial scale.