A mixture of not understanding the article and wanting to rail on CISPA? Where does it mention that the government views citizens as consumers? From what I und

A mixture of not understanding the article and wanting to rail on CISPA? Where does it mention that the government views citizens as consumers? From what I understand, it says that government would have access to data about consumers, as in 'consumers/customers of private businesses'. Anyone can misunderstand or misread something, I don't blame the author. What's irritating is how many upvotes this has and how many people have piled on.