Scott F quoted The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
An introduction to "disaster capitalism" argues that the global free market has exploited crises, violence, …
In the nineties, tech companies endlessly trumpeted the wonders of the borderless world and the power of information technology to topple authoritarian regimes and bring down walls. Today, inside the disaster capitalism complex, the tools of the information revolution have been flipped to serve the opposite purpose[...] cell phones and Web surfing have been turned into powerful tools of mass state surveillance[...]
— The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein (Page 302 - 303)
a trend even more true today, despite the dated use of "Web surfing"