“...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

The sheople prefer ignorant bliss until the brown shirts start rounding them up. First they install the devices and assure you they will not be used against you or violate your privacy. Then they say they will only be used against criminals and the data will not be stored, Then we find they have lied and they collect the data and have violated our privacy and lied again. It is Big Brother. It is incremental-ism used to great effect. It is a common means of our government to gain control and power over the masses. Remember when car companies were mandated to install seat-belts, but you weren't required to wear them, although you would pay for them in higher car prices (same with air bags). Then you were required to wear them, but you couldn't be stopped just for not wearing one. Then you were subject to being stopped just for not wearing one... There was money to be made, power to be gained and insurance lobbies to profit from in the form of political support. Sure wearing a seat-belt is a good idea, but who are you endangering but yourself? Who do you belong to? When was the last time you heard of someone hurt by impact of an ejected body and what about motorcycle riders? Does the car driver possess fewer rights?
Someone (Big Brother) is always watching us in case there is opportunity for profit or control.

This may be the scariest article I've read thus far.

I left IL. Life is better. For now. It's almost like moving from one part of a toilet bowl to a different part ~ does it really make a difference in the end? This is how pathetic things have gotten in such a short time.

All this data WILL be trading hands via the IoT, regardless of what politicians do. We need rules to manage it. I don't see any stopping the IoT turning into a massive sensor network.