He's got a PhD and a JD from Stanford and has chosen a faculty position and has done a nontrivial amount of unpaid work for various privacy rights organizations. He obviously isn't motivated by money.
Frankly you are great at knocking a strawman down. Jonathan Mayer likely has some motivation for those efforts. I made no claim to the motivation being remunerative or not.
Do you have an alternative hypothesis of a motivation other than preparation for a "public-interest" lawfare campaign?
Actual legitimate research to understand existing privacy legislation, which can be used by policymakers to iterate and ensure that legislation is effective without being wasteful.
He previously worked in a senator’s office so I do suspect he knows how the sausage is made. And yeah, the staff writing bills do look at this sort of material. It is just one part of a bigger picture but it isn’t just throwing research into a void.
He's got a PhD and a JD from Stanford and has chosen a faculty position and has done a nontrivial amount of unpaid work for various privacy rights organizations. He obviously isn't motivated by money.