purchaser

Known for a series of high-profile development proposals in Beverly Hills, Redondo Beach and other wealthy communities, Pustilnikov, 39, seemed an unlikely purchaser.

The name and address, including city, of the purchaser was blacked out by California officials.

Without such a data privacy law, foreign governments and adversaries can still acquire Americans’ data by stealing it, or by using a straw purchaser to buy it from the myriad data brokers who prey on our personal information every day.

“For example, the ‘Buy Build Shoot’ kit marketed by Polymer80 allowed a purchaser to assemble a fully functional Glock-variant semiautomatic pistol in as little as 21 minutes,” she said.

Car bloat creates numerous costs that are borne by society rather than the purchaser, or “negative externalities,” as economists call them.