As surveillance technologies become more ubiquitous, the threat of centralized, state-sponsored social control increases. Almost every device we use is embedded with data collecting technologies -- the Internet of Things. It is a chaotic mess of all sorts of data. But with a clever enough computer algorithm and an obscene amount of resources, this data can be coalesced into user profiles revealing the intimate details of a person's life.

I wasn't going to write another word on Harper's Bill C-51, because all seemed to me to have been said. 1) It's an appalling Bill, creating an unaccountable political police with wide powers—a piece of legislation clearly designed to stamp out civil dissent; and 2) With a few cosmetic changes, it's already a done deal.