Colonising a country no longer requires its physical invasion with military strength but can simply be done by controlling activities through networks and databases with a single click. Take, for example, the case of Facebook. While India is the country with the largest amount of Facebook users, when you look at the location of Facebook’s 15 data centres, ten are in North America, four in Europe and one in Asia – in Singapore. This disconnect between new sources of data and the location of data centres has led to accusations from countries such as India of “data colonisation” and “digital colonialism”.