Black Mirror is an excellent series and in my opinion, frighteningly accurate about what could happen in the near future. Fifteen Million Merits, Men Against Fire and Nosedive were excellent episodes.

I think that mass surveillance is the last option after everything else has failed. Education, knowledge, peaceful means, talking to people, listening them and their needs, helping those who need help, gun regulations, reducing inequality and improving the well-being of everyone.

I know that after all that, bad things could still happen, but trusting people and helping them before they become desperate, would prevent good people turning into people who may still be good, but do bad things because they think it's their only option. And very few people in the world are beyond repairing or help. Permanently bad. Many good people have done bad things because of fear or because they see no way out. So it's every governments job to take care of people, not make them hate or fear them.

Mass surveillance means that someone out there has a lot of information. As information in good hands is usually used for good, information in evil or corrupt hands tends to lead to bad things.

Information is power. In whose hands do we want that power to be? Can we be sure that it is only used for good things? And are we on the same page about good and bad? Did we remember to check or uncheck all the right boxes in this license term of life? And if not, where is my information now?