"WE'RE FROM THE GOVERNMENT, AND WE'RE HERE TO HELP!"

According to Ronald Reagan, those are the nine most frightening words to freedom-loving citizens everywhere! Welcome to the mysterious, covert, ultra-intrusive, and pervasive creepiness of our very own government:

DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency – the Pentagon/military/defense arm)

and

IARPA (Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency – the NSA/"security" arm) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh1tg5lyP6s

http://stories.avvo.com/nakedlaw/bizarre/12-insane-but-true-darpa-projects.html

http://www.activistpost.com/2016/05/darpa-creepiest-programs-for-human-control.html

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-01/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-immortal-micro-organisms

https://www.corbettreport.com/meet-in-q-tel-the-cias-venture-capital-firm-preview/

https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/11-body-parts-researchers-will-use-to-track-you/16/

https://www.wired.com/2011/11/follow-your-heart-darpas-quest-to-find-you-by-your-heartbeat/

This satire website has some great intel of what the NSA and its ilk are capable of:  

https://nsa.gov1.info/data/

This quote is all too similar to Reagan's:

Your Data: If You Have Nothing to Hide, You Have Nothing to Fear

Oh really? Of course, everyone has something to hide: big, small, simple, complex. We all have our skeletons. But do you want an outside (government!) entity poking around in that, digging up things about you that may hinder you from purchases, banking, or getting a job? Yeah, me neither. But poke they do, so you might as well go ahead and make yourself comfortable, because this is gonna hurt!