This epilogue reflects on the author’s tenure as UN Special Rapporteur on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance, focusing on the unsettling role emerging digital technologies play in reinforcing systemic racial inequities. Current global debates on technology regulation are often centred around privacy and human rights and preoccupied with content moderation issues. In dialogue with contributors of this volume, this epilogue argues for broader and more critical forms of legal and political intervention to be created - to challenge the enduring racial and colonial hierarchies in global governance by data, understand the worldmaking capabilities of Big Tech, and confront the data-driven immiseration and injustice they are fostering. The epilogue echoes the volume’s call to reframe data as an active force in global governance grasped through its social and material effects. As the world, and we, are iteratively remade through emerging digital technologies the challenges, and need to ask the right questions, are becoming ever more urgent. Global Governance by Data makes a crucial intervention, opening up new lines of critical inquiry.