> The implication that their data is more important or something just seems like a ploy to get more eyeballs on the research. If I had to guess at a motivation

> The implication that their data is more important or something just seems like a ploy to get more eyeballs on the research. If I had to guess at a motivation, it's jockeying for reasons for congress to care about data privacy issues. I am sure some enterprising person is going to purchase all the data on members of congress and release it at some point.