[nihonde]

Two approaches to stave off the inevitable come to mind:

1. Do whatever it takes to be "behind the curtain" and one of the people who is in a position to do the exploiting, rather than being exploited. (It's up to you what you do with that power.)

2. The opposite of signal is noise. The same hackers who build these Big Brother tools will inevitably build the tools that flood Big Brother with noise. Disinformation campaigns will always be capable of re-training the surveillance machine.