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Originally Posted by hardcastle;
Even if the government has the data, there's no precedence for chasing after people for what they've purchased.
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Claiming that there is no precedent, is to ignore the years when J Edgar Hoover more or less ran the United States.
His thugs literally spared no expense, in finding people who possesed what he called "Un-American" material, getting them fired, and unemployable. Other thugs on his payroll fabricated evidence and bribed judges, so that their special targets would either be executed, or sentenced to jail.
If you'd prefer a more recent example, there was this woman whose first name was Monica. She gave this chap named Bill a blow job. During the subsequent inquiry, Walden Books turned over a list of every item she had purchased to the FBI, without a court order.
Reading through the Snowden Papers, it is obvious that the various three letter agencies are still creating profiles based upon what individuals read, and watch. Data that supplements their social network analysis.
DHS statements have implied that social network affiliations attract their attention, but what the individual reads, and watches, determines which of the lists the individual ends up on.
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But in the totalitarian future you describe, I think we'll have more problems on our hands than this.
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That future is today.