Well, yes, but if you go after the people in the news, all the random data brokerage companies in the shadows get off scot-free and continue doing their own dat

Well, yes, but if you go after the people in the news, all the random data brokerage companies in the shadows get off scot-free and continue doing their own data harvesting. You also can't punish people for leveraging data against you if there's no law for either holding such data or using it for societally-bad purposes.