> Working close to Government... I've never seen any mission specifically seeking large-scale citizen-based tracking capabilities.

Further and rarely understood, but it never is about what the government currently does, but what it could do when change occurs.. like the Nazis could exterminate the dutch jews (was it then?) better because they had those registers.. like what if the next Putin/Orban/Trump takes over and wants to take some more steps..

General principle of data economy is one pillar for civil rights! Its abuse by companies right now is an super annoying but comparably small issue.