This is the Technocrat version of 'Your papers, please'. When experts say, 'proven technologies', they mean it has a high degree of correlation, but it is far from perfect. If you are wrongly accused of being a liar, your profile could be permanently stained.
The protest was over sexual misconduct of top Google leadership but the pent up angst waiting for a spark to explode was caused by many other issues of discontent. Leadership has created an elite Technocrat culture workers are fed up with. Google can expect more turmoil in the future.
DARPA is the black-ops technology inventor for the military. Why does it need drones flying over American citizens? Is this an expanded market opportunity for military contractors or is it an overt move to create a police state like China?
Technocracy evangelist Howard Scott would be happy that Technocracy has spread to the world today, but his prediction of Utopia has turned into Dystopia, as in China and India. Scott's pipe-dream of social engineering and total economic control was as half-baked then as it has proven to be today.
The usefulness of quantum computers is a hotly debated topic, from those who think it is quackery to others who say it's the future of computing. Regardless, scientists are pouring billions of research dollars into proving commercial uses, such as a hack-proof quantum Internet.
Electronic security is almost never a forethought with a new technology project, and then becomes platitudes and assurances after it is done. The Technocrat mindset doesn't value humans any higher than herd animals. Citizens must live with no expectation of absolute electronic security.