the flip side is, once it gets implemented - it will spread - and then there's a total, hour by hour record of where you go, when you go, and what you do and how much you spend.
Hitler must be green with envy in his grave.
And what would they do with this record? Other than occupy huge quantities of harddrive space and be bored to death? The fact of the matter is that that level of information on the day to day lives of Americans is A - already available if you use credit cards, and B - incredibly useless.
Everyone that carries a cell phone is already tracked. The police use this to locate anyone they want. They can check the computer logs to see who was near the scene of a crime, or who is not being truthful about their whereabouts.