turnkey tyranny
Meanings
noun
- An institutional, legal, and technical infrastructure — particularly mass surveillance, data collection, and centralized state power — that is built up to a point where it is likely to be abused for authoritarian ends, or could be activated by any government so inclined with little additional effort.
Word forms
Etymology
From turnkey + tyranny.
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