It’s a lot worse than that, and goes back much farther. The feds have been buying data broker information claiming the 4th amendement doesn’t apply, and judges backed them up.

The administration streamlined it, buying all of it and distributing it to agencies, before they bought it piecemeal, each agency, and often paid more than once as such for the same tranches of information.

This happened all through Biden, and before, not sure when it started exactly. But the data brokers have more information than you can imagine, and much is incorrect, insulting, and dangerous to us, and we have no way of knowing what is there, let alone challenging false assumptions and the like.

Don’t really see how you could stop it though. They just need one common point (e.g SSN, address, cc or bank ac no. Etc) to link it all together.

Edit: ok, address is not a good one