So what I find fascinating in the academic sense is that the law is being followed naturally here and so any costs incurred are incidental and arguably not the result of this experiment but rather actually the result of the law existing in the first place so ethically it’s not clear to me whether the experiment is creating this stress or in fact the law and modern society itself creates this new possibility of stress. If it’s a problem that lawyers can get involved in response to request for information about a possible CCPA request, then perhaps the law needs rework so that it cant be construed so easily as some threat requiring you to lawyer up.

In short, if lawyers asking people to follow laws are an ethical problem, then maybe we need to address that and not get enraged about a totally legal request for information about a website’s CCPA process.