Guides & insights
What buyers check, what the law says, and what to prepare before any data leaves your systems. Written for owners and operators, sourced to primary documents, and honest about what nobody can promise.
Before a software company licenses its operating data, check six things: contract rights, inventory, de-identification, security evidence, an evaluation sample and the licence terms. A sourced checklist.
Read the guide → Procurement dataWhat makes procurement, AP and spend data licensable: coverage, history, point-in-time integrity, normalisation, the six data-quality dimensions, panel stability and rights. A practical profile template.
Read the guide → Privacy & rightsBusiness datasets still hold personal data. What de-identified and anonymous mean under CCPA and GDPR, when data-broker rules apply, the DOJ Data Security Program, and the contract clauses to insist on.
Read the guide →Also on this site: what has actually been paid for data, in public deals, and a six-question estimate of where a company’s records land.
Policy watch · updates automatically
Before a company licenses any dataset, the rules on personal data and data brokers are the part that moves fastest. This list is pulled from the official Federal Register API: the newest documents from the FTC, CFPB, Justice Department, NTIA and FCC on data brokers, privacy and personal data, filtered by keyword. It is not a summary, not legal advice, and not a signal of buyer demand or prices.
Source: Federal Register API (U.S. Government, public domain). Snapshot taken 2026-09-23T16:03:30Z UTC; refreshed from the live API when you load this page, at most every 12 hours.
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