What I thought of was Cory Doctorow's book Little Brother, which posits the inverse of this situation (a "techno-geek rebellion") rather than draw a parallel: "

What I thought of was Cory Doctorow's book Little Brother, which posits the inverse of this situation (a "techno-geek rebellion") rather than draw a parallel: "Big Brother is watching us, but who's watching back?" or something like that.