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I mean, the loophole in general is "the government can't do the actual collection, but they can totally buy that same data for sale by companies like Facebook". Until we have explicit protections similar to GDPR at the national level (thanks to California for the precedent, it's a nice start), this won't change. I'd argue this loophole is worse, because not only are the for-profit companies making money off this data, but they are making money of tax dollars spent to exploit the legal loophole and the government is still getting what they want.