So? You indicated that you thought the article was made-up, anti-American bull, and I was just pointing you to the facts since it was obvious that you didn't know what you were talking about.
This isn't just packet sniffing. This is database triangulation -- all of that "private" marketing data, credit data, banking, etc., all coming together in a database that gets analyzed by algorithm for patterns of behavior.
Marketers pay billions for the data on us, just to learn how to control our buying behavior... and it always works. Spending 10 million on an ad campaign that has nothing to do with your product will increase your sales more than lowering your prices.
This will not only be a privacy invader, it will be an analysis tool for designing and implementing propoganda.