You should assume that dbzer0 will eventually get a legal request to turn over records.
What request? The record are public.
This is an approach that I really like because it incorporates a layer of realism (the real realism, not "real is brown" meme realism) that as a bonus is quite useful to produce plot hooks and various conveniences. After all, just because you as the worldbuilder know everything (or most things) about your world, that does not mean their in-universe people do. They are allowed to be wrong or incompletely informed, and unless they are an epic level lore gatherer, simple statistics say they are!
Mix this with approached for in-universe folklore and bam, realism explosion.
Awwww what are these politicians gonna do? Fillibuster on a meeting? File a complaint? Yell on social media? Oh wait they are already doing that one.
Call me when they do something actually useful.
"We are going to have a problem" should mean guillotines. The tried and true means of getting rid of tyranny.
And that's why my "necessary life skill" cooking lifehack is to just know that if you cook something big enough, it'll last you enough portions for two or three days without that much extra cooking work. And you'll only have to clean the cooking pot half (or one third) of the time.