[IAmEveryone]

Your "next logical step" isn't logical in any sense of the word. You're just recounting a few steps of history (that actually went along with increased stability of the financial system) and then suddenly suggesting it's a preamble to some scenario that's currently en vogue among the paranoid.

"backed by surveillance" simply does not mean anything. At least not in the sense of "backed by" as used in those other cases.