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> I think you've reached for Hanlon's razor incorrectly. Malice better explains what is happening here than ignorance.

Well, I think you reach for it incorrectly, then :-).

> That team knows there's a privacy-preserving way to do this.

Do you have any experience with those people who advise the representatives, and with those representatives? I have anecdotal experience, and I can tell you that for the few I have seen, you vastly overestimate their competences.