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Coverage is not resolution

Two Dollars, Seventeen Minutes

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In June 2026 Swiss researchers showed language-model agents resolving location traces to named people unattended, just before California's broker deletion platform became enforceable. This brief asks what protection and removal programs report to those paying for them, and whether it reveals what an adversary can still learn. Built from that study, re-identification research, independent tests of removal services and state agency reporting. For family offices and boards grading a protection program.

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Data RemovalAggregation & Identity ResolutionThreat Modeling
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