An arms race is under way that will deeply affect the future for working people, in Australia, and everywhere.

It’s not about who is building next-generation nuclear weapons or who controls South-China Sea.

Instead, it’s a struggle over who controls data, who has the best data, how unions use data to achieve industrial and political objectives, how corporations use data to control workers, consumers and democracy, and how political parties use and regulate data.

The data-wars are here, workers are losing, and unions are being destroyed.

Read the full article by Alex White.