In the face of a planet-wide takeover by untrammelled finance, voters have turned increasingly away from the political champions of the free market to those whose social democractic traditions might seem to offer some sense of protection and order. However, traditionally left-leaning parties now in power have directed their regulatory enthusiasm not at the giants of finance and industry, but at individual liberty and public morals. The authors of this work provide an argument for government to turn rapidly developing surveillance technology and strictures concerning ethics away from the citizen and onto a financial system that is making society ever more precarious.