[Hebdomad]

Well, you could see that the people who want "government to be more and more responsible for their well being" actually want society to do that, and see government as the distributor of society's wealth.

I find it a little vexing to assume that to look after someone's well-being you must invade their privacy. Of course, if a society decides to provide fiscal transfers after childbirth, for example, whoever organises that society must know details of births. But, for instance, why should a government keep and transfer an individual's travel details for social security?

You could make the argument that to better catch benefit cheats, their travel details will help, but that link is somewhat tenuous, and that information is far more useful in other areas quite separate from social welfare monitoring.