Could be...it's really frightening these days, generally speaking, that the truth is scarier than any fiction writer could dream up.
What makes it worse, to me anyway, is that you cannot survive without financial interaction - now I know that seems obvious, but let's say your amish and you decide to live on a farm and grow all you need. Well, you still have to pay taxes on your property so you will need an income and/or a bank account. So no matter how hard you try to avoid it you won't be able to. Add to that the case I posted where someone on welfare lost benefits because they would not use the technology on religious grounds and it gets scarier.
Giving the government control over so much information that affects our lives daily is a mistake - whether or not you have religious inclinations.