100 Data Broker Economy Pain Points

A $350B+ industry where 4,000+ brokers operate with near-zero regulation. Acxiom has 2.5B consumer records, location data enables warrantless surveillance, and opt-out requires 1,000+ hours of individual effort. 10 pain points per category across the entire surveillance economy.

View 160 Community Pain Points

This page is part of the anonym.community PII pain point research project, which documents 1,478 distinct pain points generated by 98 irreducible structural drivers across 14 research tracks and 240 jurisdictions. The research synthesizes privacy legislation analysis, enforcement decisions, technical literature, and real-world case studies to explain why PII privacy problems persist despite technological and regulatory advances. The complete research corpus is freely available at anonym.community.