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Even though most data traffic is encrypted who you're talking to is not encrypted.
So a third party can observe, who you're talking to, how much data you're sending to them, how frequently you talk to them....
The classic example is if you start visiting a suicide prevention website, even though they don't know the content that you're being served, they can guess oh you're having mental issues. We should revoke your security clearance... Etc