We're going to "safety" and "security" ourselves right into slavery. Between stuff like this, and the recent revelation that Apple's iPhones have been surreptitiously logging their owners' physical location, the police in Michigan doing rapid data dumps of drivers' cell phones during routine traffic stops (without warrants), I think it's reasonable to say we're not becoming a police state, we are a police state.
The Progressive echo chamber includes Google, whose executives are fond of stating that privacy is obsolete. The demand for performance and convenience that drives the development of electronic gadgetry has been fully realized as the perfect vehicle for 24/7 monitoring that it is. The ubiquitous interactive screens described by Orwell in 1984 weren't even as thorough as what we have in our reality.
