Tis just the next step of Big Uncle's Watchful Eye - cameras at every intersection in most cities/towns now. ...
Those movies we watched back in the 70s and 80s where anybody could be located at any second by the gov't, and we all that how impossible that would be? Yeah.
And all of our finances being pushed and pushed to be all electronic (and thus basically beyond our control)?
'Homeland Security', and their ability to side-step legal protocols at what amounts to be a whim?
Etc.
Am also unsurprised by another Total Control maneuver. Am saddened at how so many people who believe in Freedom don't see it happening. Or don't care.