These people are not in danger. Any harm to them is reputational. Reputation is the only thing they have in life.
I’m amazed at how people don’t understand that anything electronic leaves a record, even if it’s just a log file.
It’s not a simple thing. You really need some personal tie like ancestry or marriage, go to a university, or be sponsored for work.
I remember seeing an article about how the xlsx format description was several hundred pages in length.
I specifically got one with no WiFi to avoid any issues like this.