Disagree. Just like marketing and government propaganda are entwined, marketing and surveillance are entwined. There's no red herring here. It's a multi-headed dragon.

Agreed, this is the real issue “Wyden suggested that the intelligence community might be helping data brokers violate an FTC order requiring that Americans are provided "clear and conspicuous" disclosures and give informed consent before their data can be sold to third parties. In the seven years that Wyden has been investigating data brokers, he said that he has not been made "aware of any company that provides such a warning to users before collecting their data."”