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Congress appear to think they are immune to companies collecting, buying and selling their data online. They pretty much all have private accounts. That information will be publicly available to anyone who wants it if they do this.
They'd have to be suicidal to go along with it. It's a case of hubris, inability to think critically about the situation past the money, and potential power and the assumption that they'll somehow be insulated from the fallout.
But ruin the wrong person's marriage or lose the wrong person their family? That target will be so big they'll have no place to hide. There's not enough secret service to protect them. We already saw that with the January 6th stuff.
This isn't just really stupid. It's exceptionally dangerous.