I don't know if this makes me weary, angry, resigned, or just like anyone with the letters 'MP' after their name just need killing.

The way I see it, is we need to fight this kind of thing any way we can. As a technologist, I can fight by building tools to help others resist. If you can't build the tools you can learn how to use them and help others use them - learning how to use cryptography for example, is now a matter of self defence.