Welcome to the leading edge of what will soon take over everything.
The granularity of monitoring citizens is now "available" regarding travel, purchases, communication, personal property, association with other citizens, and so on, right down to pennies spent and physical location on the Earth's surface within six feet.
Because monitoring the massive amount of data is too much work for humans, programs---and increasingly AI---is being used for the purpose.
The people who create laws, rules, and regulations are the ones who tell the expert-system coders and AI modelers what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
Don't like it?
Want to push back or protest?
You better get busy, because when all money becomes electronic---a cashless society is achieved---absolute control will be possible. All it will take to shut down anyone who defies The Controllers will be flipping a switch. Make them a black hole. No money, no credit, no nothing. And those who try to assist them will suffer the same fate.
Food for thought:
Hitler, Stalin, Mao, etc, all the way back to Vlad the Impaler and Attila the Hun managed to do what they did in an entirely analog world. Meaning human spies, human informers, human enforcement, and weapons that made a clinking noise when knocked with a wrench.
What they could have done with today's unavoidable-fabric-of-society technology and bloodless "death by black hole" forced compliance would be orders of magnitude worse.