Passively refusing to cooperate is not enough. What is needed to defeat a data mining operation is garbage data.
If enough people submit bad and conflicting data, not about themselves, but about other places, the data mining will be ruined.
So for example, list plants that do not grow there, like bananas and mangos in vacant lots, federal and state lands, inside buildings, etc. Imagine the statistic that shows Utah as being the biggest banana producing state.
Lots of plants already have intrusive regulation, so they would be a hoot to list as being grown as backyard crops. Like noxious giant hogweed, tobacco, or just ordinary wheat would make USDA inspectors jump in their cars and speed to where it is supposedly being grown.
And who says you can’t grow 5 acres of tomatoes in an apartment? Because you make your own sauce and you really like spaghetti.
If 10 or 15 people, using different computers hither and yon, inputted data like that, it would monkey wrench the whole corrupt machine.
What is needed to defeat a data mining operation is garbage data.
Ha! I’m safe. Govmunt will never believe anything will grow on the rock pile I live on.
I’ve been raking rocks and turning them into fence posts.