Regulations that are stronger than they should are made to be broken and circumvented. There's at least one likely future in which, following a couple multi-mi

Regulations that are stronger than they should are made to be broken and circumvented. There's at least one likely future in which, following a couple multi-million lawsuit baseds on such requests, a kind of 'blind referencing' becomes the norm, taught and enforced by companies and organizations. "Never refer to individuals by name, use the Company Directory's Hash Function". Or something silly like that. Just like companies delete employees emails in the second they are allowed to do so by law - can you imagine if the law was to keep them forever? We'd have extreme changes in email formats and technology every decade or so, to render it impossible to read old-enough emails from disgruntled ex-employees and etc.