Yes, dark .... it's all about control, search and kill...
but also waste of (tax)money and resources and scientific research.  Saab, one of the partners in the project has 120 (no typo) engineers in France working on it.
Furthermore, some research for the project is done by university's (education-money).
In the weekend I met a Prof from the university of Leuven, department Telecom-research. I asked him if he knew about the Neuron: his answer : you are not supposed to know about.

The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)