Once control of the masses is centralized in one place, it will be too tempting to tighten the screws - or just screw around - with some or all people.
Want to make everyone dance to a new law? Easy peasy. Limit bathroom breaks? No sweat.
Even enforcement can be made more "painless" via machine learning:
Gradually, a model of people’s behavior takes shape. “Once you identify a criminal or a suspect, then you look at their connections with other people,” he said. “If another person has multiple connections, they also become suspicious.”
Simply cut off that person's credit cards and WeChat accounts etc. Anyone seen helping this person get food to eat is similarly penalized. Pretty soon the person will learn to obey the system or starve. In fact it will be a nice Pavlovian proportional response. Each infraction is punished by some limitation of your ability to transact. And voila -- a population of docile adults, perfectly conditioned by an ever more efficient system to do whatever the new laws say they should.
Just like drones make war less costly, this will make law enforcement less costly, leading to a proliferation of "easy"-to-enforce laws.