I have no experience with this level of intromission. The regime here, though authoritarian and criminal, has made only half-hearted and chaotic attempts at surveillance, although they once created a list of people who had in the past voted against Chávez or actively opposed him, and you could get fired, not hired at all or lose all kinds of social benefits and have your civic guarantees constantly violated if they found out you were in that list. That was the single most competent attempt at profiling that chavistas could ever manage, and those days are long gone, even the guy who composed that list is dead.
I'm not concerned about surveillance of any kind, I'd wager lots of my personal information are scattered all over the web anyway already. However, I find this kind of practices so outdated and pointless. They're not conducive to solutions, they're just another random expression of a deeply male desire for dominance and control, the guys who imposed these measures wouldn't even know what to do with the data they're gathering. The faster we get rid of institutions and groups that promote "brilliant" ideas such as this one, the better humanity will do.
I agree - I was talking about it with a female colleague this morning who beleves that's all crumbling, which I find interesting, as I just see it digging in and getting strong. Maybe I've just given up - grasping for hope at the moment. The government should never, ever be in charge of people's freedom of movement. i can understand the border control, but I can't understand why we can't even cross state lines.