The NSA attempting to gain backdoor access to all pieces of technology capable of transmitting data is only the beginning of the government's plan to implement predictive prosecution from The Minority Report. Watson from IBM is a huge part of this plan. While IBM tells you that they're programming Watson to be good at Jeopardy and diagnose illness, this is simply a necessary step in their predictive software. Watson is identifying social cues and medical symptoms as well as lineage and types of media that criminals are more likely to view and creating a series of data that it can reference to quickly identify high risk patterns and flag that individual for closer surveillance.

This program is responsible for the proliferation of cellphones, assists in the development of social media platforms and ensures they become widely used and popular via subliminal messages embedded in TV and radio broadcasts.

This also ties into the reason that the U.S. government is trying to keep the control of the internet in as few hands as possible so they have less channels to go through for data collection. The reason they are attempting to slow the progress of fiber networks is because they currently lack the raw processing power to keep up with the increasing amount of data that they receive. Implementing data caps and bandwidth limitations allow the system to operate nominally and ensure that a minimum amount of data goes unprocessed.

It goes deeper. The accelerometer on your cellphone doesn't exist so that you can rotate your screen. It's used to track your location when you are in an area that cannot be accurately tracked via your GPS. By calculating your last known position and comparing the data being sent by the accelerometer to the patterns of movements that your phone experiences in your day to day life, they can estimate your pace and path within any location that receives cell service.

They're also responsible for those advertisements that open when you bring your mouse within 5 inches of it, the ones that automatically play with audio, and the ads on youtube that load in after you've had just enough time to decide you want to click that first link and end up clicking the ad instead.

Pure evil.