Cyber-security has become an intensified issue of late, as countries charge other countries with invading their “space” via the Internet and challenging basic institutions inside the attacked governments. But what are governments doing to their own citizens? The answer seems to be the spread of systemic surveillance, the ability to combine captured, purchased and purloined information from an extensive network ofsources, both secure and open and both private and governmental. Such massive monitoring raises another question: To what end? Most governments say widespread aggregation of data serves a positive societal purpose: It decreases corruption and crime, increases security and so on. Yet targets canget shifted. China’s system of surveillanc eis getting a boost, and that boost has been traded to Russia in exchange for sophisticated military technology. The U.S. has in place a massive aggregation model that appears to be systemic. Do the world’s citizens trust those who have their hands on such a capability?