People can't see what's coming. The potential existence of an authoritarian surveillance state is beyond their reality, and because of that, they're going to collectively steer all of us into the trap (while screaming "it's all a stupid CT!").
Just take the toll station automation, for example. An image capture of your vehicle's plate is now logged, and your travels documented. Now take this kind of tech and place it in the hands of a corrupt and rotten government, across all sorts of societal interactions and activities. That's what's on the way, make no mistake about it. The tech to enable it is largely already here.
It's simply a matter of time before we're living in a 1984 type of society, barring some sort of crazy shift in mass consciousness that prevents it. Why do you think they want to disarm the populace?