It isn't mimicking as such, it's your federal government signing up to various international agreements on everything under the sun. The international agreement in question here is called "the Fourth Industrial Revolution", and you can bet they're all in on it. Just like they are with Digital ID, ID gated internet and so on.

Western governments have a tendency to try and change their publics rather than be changed by the public. They even have a name for it, "psychological nudging".