What is it with the world's government's trying so hard to spy on their citizens and become police states? What are they afraid of...

Their owners.

In the Epic of Gilgamesh billionaires' capture of government is illustrated.

Im actually pretty sure they're afraid of the populous.

Sounds like a very sovereign and responsible decision.

always has been

A tale as old as written time, and probably before then.

we didn't actually have oligarchs for a long time back when we lived in small communal villages. someone like this would be beaten to death and we could use going back to doing it.

"The Gotham platform can link together various police databases and automatically analyze their contents. Critics point out however that the software is a “black box” – how it functions is not clearly known."

TIL they have a news section.

I can’t help but laugh at the names they’ve chosen. They know that they’re the bad guys and embrace it.

A likely illegal use is missing.

A tale older than myth.