Our gerontocracy is unprepared to deal with issues related to technology and privacy. I don't think these data brokers need to hide at all. We already see how legislators (failed to) comprehend issues related to technology in the many of unproductive congressional hearings over the past few years (Google, Tiktok, Twitter, Facebook... all brought before congress with nothing to show for it now). I think issues of technology and privacy are moving too fast for our gerontocracy to possibly keep up.
And I think our legislators show their ass in the case of the Tiktok hearing; effectively stating oh it's fine if the data is being bought and sold by a US company (Oracle).
If our legal system isn’t prepared to properly handle such things then it should default to being illegal to collect and sell data until the legislation is created to properly protect the rights of those who put them in office and pay their salaries.
The default of “you will be violated until we get to it, if we are able to comprehend it” is a dystopia I hadn’t imagined, yet here we are.
And I think our legislators show their ass in the case of the Tiktok hearing; effectively stating oh it's fine if the data is being bought and sold by a US company (Oracle).