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I think the point was that while the various governments in the EU deploy surveillance systems en masse, private companies can not.

Spying on employees is very restricted. Anything that would even come close to it would be strongly rejected by the unions.

"May"

And no - CCTV is not widespread at all. There's far more CCTV in the UK than there is in the EU where I live now.

States do indeed issue local IDs. There is no common EU ID card and no common EU passport.

There isn't even a common immigration database for Schengen - although that's planned for 2023. (It was supposed to be 2022, but it's been delayed by a year.)