NSA surveillance: tech companies demand sweeping changes to US laws
In the nineties (and even later) I read a lot of cyberpunk set in near-future dystopias where government power had crumbled and evil megacorps ruled the world, usually at the expense of personal liberty and privacy (the two are closely related).<p>Now the megacorps are trying to defend our personal liberty and privacy from governments that have gotten too powerful (albeit mostly because it would improve sales)!  That's... unexpected.