[Havoc]

Well it's a combination of things, don't forget that. Just because you have nothing to hide doesn't mean it's a good idea to give everyone complete insight in your life. We've begun to get very digital with personal info lately. Somewhere next year we'll have a personalized card for public transport, which could mean that any law enforcing agency could check where you've been traveling and when.
Internet histories are being kept by providers so agencies can check what you've been doing online.
On a daily basis I probably show up on at least two dozen security cameras in stores and on the street. Combined with my financial records an agency has the ability (if they wanted to use it) to trace my life to the tiniest detail. Down to the flavour of ice cream I bought five days ago at the train station in Amsterdam while wearing my brown leather jacket.

My concern is not about there being a record of all these things but the large abuse potential it has. For now it's about security and catching bad guys. In 10 years shit could hit the fan and those systems that were once meant to protect us now function as a digital prison.

China for example. Speak bad about the government on the internet and they will track you down and lock you up. And that's just the internet.

World War II is another nice example. How do you think the Nazi's managed to pin down every jew in the country? Because all they had to do was open a book and find every single registered jew in the country complete with phone number and adres.