Perhaps you're right about that. There is a big difference, however, between commercial interest having access to and collecting that information, and a government doing the same, for reasons that I figure ought to be obvious to anyone who considers him or herself to be a "conservative" (using the US definition of "conservative"... big government = bad).

Having said that, I don't like the fact that anyone can collect, sell, and/or use that information whether I like it or not.