Comment by dheera

> shutting down paid data brokers seems virtually impossible in practice

Just jail them. Make it a felony to release someone's PII without their written consent, and make data brokers illegal to begin with.

> numerous ways to infer your address from other data sources, including apps that grab GPS on friends' cellphones when they visit

These are not the main vector of transmission of personal information. Yes, Meta could probably do some graph analysis and infer this, but it's a lot of work, and their data leaks are rare in comparison to all the other companies, financial institutions, and governmental organizations, that freely post residential addresses on the internet and to data brokers for the world to Google.

> companies, organizations and governments that collect it for various reasons

KYC requiring addresses should be banned. Companies should not collect a residential address.