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That's not failure to comply with the law if you don't actually live in California.
People have a legal location of residence in the US.
If you want to establish legal residency in a state, you're typically looking at doing something like spending the majority of the year there.
EDIT: I'd also be pretty confident, though the article doesn't talk about it, that California won't normally have jurisdiction for California state law unless a data broker is doing business in California, and that that will also be a constraining factor. Like, if a data broker company is only doing business in, say, Russia, the US will not enforce rulings against them regarding California state law in general.
In California, if you're homeless, you typically have to set your mail up as "general delivery" to your nearest post office where you go to collect mail every few days. You probably don't have any other address.
Not sure how this interfaces with this specific law otherwise, but using a post office isn't a bad idea generally because it isn't a totally unexpected thing. A homeless person would probably list that as an address.
There's also a lot of mail services that will give you an address in that state and will open/scan received mail for you... not sure if California specifically has one, though. But yeah, this doesn't establish legal residency at all, but many entities don't look too closely either... might be worth a shot.
I guess I should have said EVEN* failing to comply with the law, you caught me out on some pedantry, I admit it and concede