Should government be able to keep records of citizen purchase trends? (permanent records)?

Question

SS# - Name - Child name (if different) - Father name (if different) - purchase date & time - purchase store/location/gps - purchase price - purchase item description - and so on

Answer 1

No, they should not.  If you'd like to shield your information, buy through a third party, barter, don't buy anything new,  and don't use credit cards.  Maybe create an alias. Nobody has to know.  Purchasing a car would be difficult because you have to register with the dmv, but you can shield most of your records if you really want to.

Answer 2

I don't think so. Right to privacy is important