An Interview with Brian Kernighan (InformIT)

This quote too, is worth seeing again as QoD or QoY

"Governments have perhaps come a bit late to the party, but they too are eager to learn everything possible about their citizens. I fear that without some unlikely combination of restraint, law, and pushback by ordinary people, we are heading to a world that will make the invasions of Orwell's 1984 seem desirable by contrast."