Have a read about data brokers. It is a multi-trillion dollar industry which most people don't even realize exists.. A single data broker company known as Acxiom has 11,000 data points on 2.5 billion individuals. 11,000 data points! Can you even think up a thousand data points about yourself?
what you find is a single datapoint of say "email address". is only worth $0.0001
but some businesses want email addressess of people "aged 30-50", "male". and "enjoy chocolate"
this creates a basket datapoint value that is worth $0.02 due to it being a subgroup of a subgroup of a sub group specific to a datapoint
its much like if you had a burger, a sausage, some onions, some cheese. and 4 condiments.
first appears to be just 8 ingredients(points) yet can be combined into hundreds of different varients of points
there are other double data points
eg one data point of: "meat eater".. is not just "enjoys meat", but also "non vegan"
eg "lives in the UK" is not just "british resident" but also "pound(£) user", "HMRC tax payer", "uses british brands"
its very very easy to create 1000 or even 11,000 data points by just knowing 110 things about someone where you can create new datapoints by combining a couple separate points into one larger subgroup datapoint
Eg "non vegan, under 30, female"
governments dont buy the random crap about if your a vegan or do you buy coffee
the FATF pay for KYC info that is supplied to them from suspicious activity. as a payment for delegating exchanges to police its customers
the tax office also as a separate agency pays for information on people of working age trading over $1k-$10k.. and $10k-$100k sub groups
governments dont care that you bought coffee using a starbucks giftcard you bought with crypto
but rival coffee companies would be interested in starbucks gift card customers.
