This is ultimately the destruction of our 4th Amendment rights against illegal search and seizure.  Government requires a reason of criminal activity to actually start investigating someone, the way I understand it.  In other nations that do not have such limitations on government that technically, I can see the creeping infofascism that has begun worldwide quickly take over their lives.  And unfortunately, with the current belief of the US Constitution as a "living breathing document", meaning mutating over time and able to slough off inconvenient rights, the 4th amendment is proving to be a very poor levee against the rising flood of corporate and government invasiveness and control.

Unfortunately, if history is a guide, people don't resist till after their rights have been taken and the government has become onerous.