Chatrie reprices the purchase route: the channel the ruling did not close

Built to keep you findable: removal is a position, not an event

Your Record Comes Back

California's Delete Request and Opt-out Platform began binding registered data brokers on 1 August 2026, requiring them to act on deletion requests on a recurring cycle. This brief asks why a record can still be found after a removal apparently succeeded, how much of that the new duty reaches, and how removal work should be judged over time. Built from California Privacy Protection Agency materials and the firm's removal casework. For principals and advisors assessing a deletion program.

Location data after Chatrie: the consent story just got weaker

Your Location Is Still For Sale

Chatrie, decided on 29 June 2026, addressed government access to Location History, and its reasoning about consent has drawn attention well beyond criminal procedure. This brief asks how far that reasoning travels, and which arguments in a broker, vendor or removal dispute it strengthens and which it leaves untouched. Built from the slip opinion, its Justice alignment and the FTC's location-data orders. For legal functions pressing brokers and household vendors over a principal's records.

Transnational Repression Has a Locate Layer

Your Address Is the Cheap Part

In August 2026 an adviser to the IRGC commander announced an offensive doctrine of operations on enemy soil, and coverage read it mostly as a Strait of Hormuz story. This brief treats it as a targeting problem and asks which stage of an outsourced plot against people abroad a household can contest. Built from American and European prosecutions, federal threat assessments, broker-registry filings and the federal bulk-data rule. For family offices deciding whom protection should cover.

What a coordinate discloses

Federal Trade Commission complaints against Gravy Analytics, Mobilewalla and InMarket give the most detailed public account of what the location data industry infers from movement records. This brief works that enforcement record backward to the derivation steps behind it, asks which inferences matter most to a protected person, and tests whether current rules reach them. Built from the complaints and orders, peer-reviewed mobility research and recent state privacy statutes. For security and legal functions assessing a principal's movement exposure.

The File Is Not the Product: What a Data Broker Actually Sells

Your Broker File Is a Prediction

In September 2026 Consumer Reports used new state access rights to obtain Acxiom broker files, and coverage by The Markup and CalMatters dwelt on how much in them was wrong. This brief asks a different question: what the file is actually for, what a buyer does with it, and what a correction or deletion request can and cannot reach. Built from the investigation, buyer and broker statements, and two state disclosure statutes. For advisors running broker removals for principals.