Hi Modati,
Really appreciate your realistic view on the matter, you are certainly knowing what you're on about. I think a lot of common users do not fully realize in what kind of Big Brother society they wake up every morning. Just scary to know that when you have your mobile phone on you (it is turned off) and you visit the stadium authorities know exactly how many with the same name as you are there in that stadium, you can claim later that it was your brother in law you handed the phone out to for the occasion, but even that can be easily verified to be not true. Now combine that with all the other data smears you leave behind on terminals, machines, cash desks, credit verification, together with all the private data that can come automatically coupled and your portrait on street camera's and even your tone of voice analyzed for compliance (UK situation), you really have nowhere to hide and have become fully and utterly transparent, you only need to be chipped to be "fully owned" for serfdom by Big Brother (it is already in your passport, which data are coupled with your medication data, four of your digits, and sometimes five, and an IT man with the right authorization can have your profile in no time and even scan it out from a couple of metres while your body scan pictures are stored for whatever reason by a private outsource company, on the Internet similar business even more advanced and hidden and loopholed. You do not catch the baddies with all these measures (it was not meant to do so) because they take their precautionary measures (an' leave their phone at home or start to communicate with pigeons and blinking mirrors again), and cybercrime have found places where they are tolerated and nobody reacts to any abuse anyway. So why all the tracking, I think to have you in a situation where only Mao and other Big Rudder men could dream of. Some aspects are good when they are used for good, many aspects are bad where they can be used to be abused and restrictive of freedom and choice,
polonus