So, some researcher sitting at his computer in his lab in his university, connecting to another university's or NASA's server, downloading freely available, gov

So, some researcher sitting at his computer in his lab in his university, connecting to another university's or NASA's server, downloading freely available, government-funded research data, used to do his publicly funded research grant, the results of which will be published in a journal for the whole world to see-- This HTTP request is sensitive? It's secret? A profile is going to be built from it? A profile of what? Bob Roberts, Ph.D., University of Studyton, downloading NASA solar data to his lab computer? Oh no, poor Dr. Roberts, now the NSA will know what he downloads... Come on. Insensitive web traffic certainly does exist. If you think it doesn't, you must have no imagination.