Larry Ellison, 81, is the co-founder of Oracle and is worth $270 billion. IBM built the technology that Oracle is based upon. In 1977, his fledging company won its first major contract to build a database for the Central Intelligence Agency. The project’s code name was Oracle.He organized data and learned that human behavior follows patterns and is predictable. It is worth billions.

Ellison is building the pipes that information flows through…if you’ve been to a hospital, if you’ve applied for a loan, or if you’ve used TikTok, your data has been processed by Oracle.

His model is to fuse everything known about a person into one searchable profile that is closely linked to police records. American protest data from the NATO summit in Chicago in 2012 became the training data for Chinese surveillance.