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Data Rights & Markets

How personal and operational data is owned, transferred, priced, and regulated across corporate transactions and insolvency.

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The Estate Sale

When a company dies, everything its staff wrote at work becomes an asset on the schedule. In August 2026 Google bid $10 million for one such archive, and a judge decides in September whether it goes through. American bankruptcy law has an office for exactly this, and it was written to protect customers, so it never engaged.