Its a question of response. And there are two broad policy approaches, both based on the transparency; In the first there is full transparency for the state and full opacity for the people. This is the current policy of the US Government and attempts to both mitigate conspiracies by making them hard to maintain, and enhance discovery by detecting people trying to maintain cover. In the second there is full transparency for both the state and the citizens (which is to say it goes both ways). This enhances discovery (both inside and outside the state) but also makes operations harder (on both sides).

It is asserted that the first policy converges on a totalitarian state solution, it is also asserted that the second policy converges on anarchy. As neither of those end points are stable, I don't agree that they are convergent so much as inflection or transition points.