I highly recommend this talk on security by Bruce Scheier: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3NJ-Ow2Lvg
Quoting from memory: Government and corporations have learned to use each other to circumvent the legal limitations imposed on them. If government mandated everyone to carry a tracking device 24/7, there would be upheaval. And yet, most of us do have a cell phone with us most of the time.