Comment by FireBeyond

> misleading departments and officials about how data is shared/accessed

Many times this isn't misleading, per se, but nudge nudge wink wink. "We trust you to follow your own data privacy policy. It's not our job to police how access to your data is configured." In Washington, for example, there is data that LE cannot collect, and LE cannot pay someone to collect directly for them to bypass that...

... but if someone just so happens to ALREADY be collecting it, they can pay to access it.