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Can you think of a real example where the police need to track the movement of every citizen? One can come up with all sorts of hypotheticals, and I'm sure there are some such ones where it will make sense. There are emergency contexts in which even really strict martial law can make sense. There is absolutely no reason for the government to collect information on who is calling whom and associating with whom, when there is no reason to suspect any party to that association. It is very tempting for law enforcement to ask for everything: the poor general always says he is short of man-power. Bureaucrats knee-jerk reaction is to ask for much more than they really need. However, information that is private has scope for abuse. Someone may wish to keep some activity or relationship private even if it is legal. The government has no business knowing such information. Even if the laws were mostly great, such information should not be in the hands of government: because it gives people in government a source of power that they ought not to have. But, we live under many categories of law that are illegitimate: laws in the areas of business, sex, immigration, taxation, drugs, alcohol, abortion, medication, drinking raw milk, throwing out certain types of garbage, and a host of other nitty-gritty. With all these illegitimate laws, the last thing one wants government to have is access to all relationships of all people. if they want to go after terrorists, that is obviously legitimate; but, then there ought to be something about some party to the "search" that relates that party to terrorism.