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Almost. There's also the possibilities inherent when every electronic item in your house can have its own IP address, making for the possibility of even more extensive data collection on households and, by extension, individuals.
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What you're not understanding is that can happen right now with IPv4. The lack of PUBLIC IP addresses does not hinder this in any way. Your home could have one
real ip address and still provide access for an almost limitless amount of devices. The massive data collection you're predicting would have have nothing to do with IPv6 if it happens.
Even when IPv6 comes to be, nobody is going to waste public addresses on toasters, refrigerators and toothbrushes--and even if they did... giving them a real IP address isn't going to work with a home networking wireless router. Each device would have to have its own wireless modem (3G, 4G, or whatever), which ain't going to happen.
I don't know how to make it any clearer: "IPv6 is not the 'droid you're looking for."
