Algorithms might be designed, for example, to infer how many times per day a refrigerator door was opened (relevant to dietary and obesity studies), the times of day a residence was occupied (relevant to air pollution health studies), and even the patternof sleep (relevant to a variety of health studies).
The right response to that, though, would be to curb pollution and try to alter the patternof growth to make it less resource-intensive, rather than to control population directly.