That's because the privacy violations are driven by government and deep state interests.
Advertisers don't need or want the personal data. They're just taking the blame for it because knowing the truth is not comfortable for the public.
Advertisers don't need or want the personal data. They're just taking the blame for it because knowing the truth is not comfortable for the public.
Personal data ("A John Connor from Stockton, CA has bought 359 FPV drone parts last month") is the purview of law enforcement and state-level actors.
But if they have the latter data they'll sell it in a heartbeat.
Lol. Did you misspell profits? You make it sound like some magical grand conspiracy. It's profits. Always has been, and we buy into it because we are consumer whores. The corporations are in charge, so there's your "deep state," I guess, a bald-faced hornet people like you love to keep pretending is something else.
You can turn personal data into statistical distributions with enough effort, but that's expensive and fraught with legal perils when you can get the same statistical distributions easier and cheaper with conventional statistical methods.