turnkey tyranny en · NOUN
Etymology
From turnkey + tyranny.
Meanings
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(uncountable) 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.
Civil-liberties advocates warned that the expanding surveillance apparatus had created turnkey tyranny.
And it will be turnkey tyranny.
2016 November 10, Alex Hern, “Worried about the NSA under Trump? Here's how to protect yourself”, in The Guardian: