Resources and Guides on Data, Privacy, Identity
Articles, primers and guides on identity resolution, location data quality, CTV attribution, property data, alternative data and privacy compliance.
Resources & Research (63)
- MAID Graph Diligence: Match Rates + Compliance — A 2026 buyer checklist for MAID/HEM identity graphs: coverage and match-rate tests, refresh cadence and decay, and compliance diligence you should demand.
- Enterprise Data Pilot Checklist (2026) — A 2026 pilot checklist: seed match tests, delivery specs, refresh cadence, governance, and contract terms that prevent drift in production.
- Clean Room Joins in 2026: Private Matching — A 2026 buyer guide to clean-room joins: seed match testing, exposure→outcome measurement, aggregation floors, retention/deletion SLAs, and governance controls.
- Healthcare Alternative Data: Signal + HIPAA Bounds — Operator-grade healthcare alternative data: where claims-adjacent and mobility signal have value, and where HIPAA and FTC HBNR bound the stack in 2026.
- 2026 Geo-Panel Audit: Mobility Coverage Post-FTC — Mobility-panel coverage in 2026 after FTC X-Mode, InMarket, and Mobilewalla consent orders — panel math, supply replacement, and vendor-deck diligence.
- Mortgage Default Early-Warning Signals 2026 — Mortgage default early-warning stack for 2026: cashflow deterioration, property-tax delinquency, and hazard-insurance lapse — what leads and how they combine.
- Data Brokers Post-FTC Orders: 2026 Diligence — How to diligence data brokers after 2024 FTC consent orders — the questions that matter, sensitive-category scrubbing, and where risk lives in 2026.
- B2B ABM Signal Stacking: Firmographic + Intent — How B2B teams stack firmographic, technographic, and intent signals — where each adds lift, where they overlap, and the ABM diligence rubric.
- Privacy-Safe Retail Measurement: Traffic + CTV — How retail teams measure privacy-safe across in-store foot traffic, card panels, and CTV attribution — the working stack and signal overlaps.
- Insurance Lead Velocity: Pacing Spend vs Decay — How carriers pace insurance lead spend as signals decay: call-velocity math, speed-to-quote curves, TCPA contact windows, and the operational model behind CPA.
- FCRA vs Non-FCRA Lead Data: The Compliance Line — FCRA vs non-FCRA lead data — which use-cases need a permissible purpose, which don’t, and the gray zones driving current CFPB and FTC enforcement.
- Device Graph Decay: MAID and HEM Freshness Math — How fast MAID and HEM identity graphs decay — ATT churn, dormant-email rates, and the operational response that keeps freshness useful for activation.
- CRE Underwriting: Foot Traffic + Property Signals — Which foot-traffic and property-data signals actually move CRE underwriting decisions, where signal usefulness lives, and diligence questions to ask.
- MAID Graph Economics: Identity Resolution Pricing — Why MAID/HEM identity-graph pricing behaves the way it does — match rates, cohort decay, fill-rate math, and how privacy rules shape broker costs.
- Clean Rooms in 2026: What Data Buyers Actually Get — What a data buyer actually receives from a 2026 clean room — computation boundaries, output restrictions, match-key economics, and questions to ask.
- Real Estate Data 201: Ownership, Liens, Off-Market — Beyond the 101: ownership-chain tracing, lien priority, and off-market signal patterns that separate operator-grade real estate data from list buyers.
- Tickerized Data Playbook: Panels to Quant Signals — How raw alt-data panels become quant-ready tickerized signals: ticker mapping, cohort stability, backfill integrity, and Reg FD-safe delivery.
- Programmatic CTV: ACR in DSP Bidding & Measurement — How Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) data feeds programmatic CTV — DSP bidding integration, exposure-based measurement, and cross-channel frequency control.
- B2B Intent Data: What Clickstream Tells RevOps — When B2B clickstream intent works and misfires — the RevOps decision framework, account-level aggregation, and three use-cases that move pipeline.
- POI Data Quality: Polygons, Centroids, Multi-Tenant — Why POI quality makes or breaks foot-traffic analytics: polygon fidelity, centroid placement, and the multi-tenant address-disambiguation problem explained.
- Foot-Traffic vs Card Panels: Decision Framework — When to use foot-traffic panels versus credit-card panels for CPG and retail reads: what each measures, where each fails, and how to combine them.
- Euclidean Feed: Distance Math for Site Selection — How distance-matrix feeds power site selection, cannibalization modeling, and competitive catchment analytics — and why Euclidean vs drive-time matters.
- Healthcare Data: Privacy-Safe Signals for Payers — How life-sciences and payer buyers source privacy-safe healthcare signals: de-identified behavioral data, POI-matched visits, consent-first mobility feeds.
- Auto & Motorcycle Data: Lifecycle Lead Quality — How 201M US vehicle records + ownership-lifecycle signals (purchase date, financing, warranty, registration) drive auto-insurance and refi lead quality.
- OSINT for Commercial Buyers: Federal Playbook — Commercial buyers can adopt federal OSINT procurement patterns — provenance, sensitive-category exclusions, accredited delivery — to lower vendor risk.
- CTV/ACR 101: What CTV IDs Tell Advertisers — A buyer’s guide to ACR data and CTV IDs: what ~13–14M unique CTV IDs/month measure, reach/frequency mechanics, and how to use ACR for incremental attribution.
- Clickstream Panels Explained: Scale, Bias, Use-Cases — How consumer clickstream panels are sourced, where their sampling bias hides, and three durable use-cases where the data earns its license fee.
- Foot-Traffic Panel Sizing: Devices for a Read — How to size a mobility panel for foot-traffic analytics: the MAID counts per chain, per store, and per DMA actually needed for defensible, publishable reads.
- FTC Location-Data Enforcement: Buyer Guide — Practical breakdown of 2024–2026 FTC enforcement on location-data brokers — questions buyers should ask vendors and what durable compliance looks like.
- CTV Attribution: Bridging the Last-Mile Gap — How identity graph + ACR + clickstream together collapse the CTV attribution gap. A buyer’s guide to closing the measurement loop without walled gardens.
- Alt-Data in Equity Research: Beyond the Hype — A grounded look at where alternative data adds alpha and where it doesn’t — plus a buyer’s checklist for evaluating tickerized signal vendors before signing.
- Privacy Regulations 2026: State-by-State Landscape — Updated state-by-state privacy law tracker for 2026 — CCPA/CPRA, Virginia, Colorado, Texas, Florida, and the other new states. What buyers must know right now.
- Location Intelligence for Commercial Real Estate — How CRE investors use POI, foot-traffic, and origin-destination data for site selection, lease underwriting, tenant-mix planning, and ongoing asset management.
- A Geospatial & Location Data Quality Framework — Five tests every buyer should run on a location-data sample before signing a contract: polygon quality, GPS accuracy, dedupe integrity, coverage, and freshness.
- Why POI Data Quality Makes or Breaks Foot Traffic — Bad polygons cause overcounting, undercounting, and biased competitor benchmarks. How to spot the five POI quality failure modes before they cost you money.
- What "Privacy-Safe" Actually Means in Location Data — A working definition of "privacy-safe" location data: consent provenance, identifier hygiene, audit trail. Five questions every vendor must answer.
- 5 Questions to Ask Before Licensing a MAID Feed — A buyer-side checklist for evaluating MAID providers: source mix, refresh cadence, dedupe integrity, identity-graph match rate, and commercial contract terms.
- How CRE Investors Use Origin-Destination Data — Worked examples of how origin-destination mobility data sharpens site-selection underwriting, tenant-mix planning, and lease-negotiation decisions in CRE.
- Clickstream vs. Foot Traffic: When to Use Which — A decision matrix for picking the right signal: clickstream for intent, foot-traffic for proof. Includes four side-by-side use-cases and sample SQL patterns.
- Tickerized Data in Fundamental Equity Research — How fundamental analysts use ticker-mapped consumer signals — foot traffic, card, ACR, clickstream — to validate revenue, channel mix, and competitive shifts.
- Cross-Channel Attribution Without Walled Gardens — A practical playbook for cross-channel attribution that doesn’t depend on Google, Meta, or Amazon — identity graph + clickstream + ACR as the durable trio.
- OSINT & CAI Procurement for Federal Buyers — Compliance, sourcing, and audit posture for federal buyers of commercially available information (CAI). What contracting officers should require in 2026.
- Geofencing Best Practices: Polygons vs. Radius — Why radius geofences over- and under-count store visits, and how polygon geofences fix it — including sample SQL patterns, tuning notes, and POI quality checks.
- What CPG Brands Can Learn From Transaction Data — Five signals CPG brands miss when they only look at point-of-sale: cross-shop, channel mix, lapsed-buyer triggers, basket affinity, household.
- Real Estate Data in Modern Mortgage Underwriting — How lenders use 155M-record property data to validate collateral, catch occupancy fraud, and price risk more accurately than AVMs alone support.
- Non-FCRA Mortgage Leads — 2026 Compliance Guide — What "non-FCRA" actually means for mortgage leads: permissible use, sourcing, and how compliant marketing teams document their lead flow in 2026.
- Insurance Lead Quality: Conversion Benchmarks — What actually drives conversion differences across insurance lead sources: intent freshness, consent artifacts, deduplication, and lead-age mechanics.
- Property Data for CRE Investment Due Diligence — How commercial real estate investors use property-level data — ownership, assessments, tax, transactions — to accelerate and sharpen due diligence.
- Evaluating a B2B Contact Database Before You Sign — A buyer's checklist for B2B contact-database procurement: coverage, match rates, phone validation, list decay, consent posture, and transparent vendor pricing.
- Identity Graphs 101: MAID, HEM, CTV, Household — What an identity graph actually is, how MAID-to-HEM resolution works, and how CTV IDs and household linkage fit into the modern post-cookie identity stack.
- Fraud Detection with Location + Property Signals — How fraud teams combine location data and property-level signals to catch synthetic identities, first-party application fraud, and mule-account patterns.
- CPG Signals in Alt Data: 71M DAUs Explained — What transaction-level CPG signals from a 71M DAU panel actually reveal about brand share, category trends, and private-label shift — and how to use them.
- Privacy-Safe Audience Targeting Post-Cookie — A practitioner's map of post-cookie audience targeting: first-party CRM, clean rooms, contextual, and authenticated identity — with trade-offs buyers feel.
- Mortgage Servicing Monitoring with Property Data — How mortgage servicers use 155M-property-record data to flag occupancy drift, liquidity events, and portfolio risk between the formal servicing touch points.
- Insurance Lead Monetization: The Home Data Story — Why property data is the decisive signal for insurance lead monetization in 2026 — and how carriers rebalance their marketing spend around it.
- CRE Due Diligence Playbook: Sophisticated Shops — The CRE investment due-diligence playbook sophisticated shops run — ownership, occupancy, cash-flow signals, and the data stack behind each.
- Alt Data for Equity Research: Buyer's Checklist — A 2026 buyer's checklist for alternative data in equity research — signal-to-noise, coverage, tickerization, compliance posture, and onboarding friction.
- Cross-Channel Measurement: Privacy-First 2026 — How privacy-first advertisers measure ad impact across CTV, mobile, web, and in-store without relying on third-party cookies or unscoped mobile device IDs.
- B2B Prospecting 2026: When Cold Email Broke — A practitioner's guide to B2B prospecting in 2026 — LinkedIn, intent data, direct mail revival, and the B2B contact database layer that powers it all.
- Retail Media Networks: The Data Layer Behind It — What actually powers retail media networks — first-party purchase data, loyalty signals, MAID and CTV joins, and the measurement layer making it monetizable.
- Email Data: Multi-Match vs Single-Match Buying — A buyer's guide to email data procurement in 2026 — what multi-match and single-match mean, how they interact with deliverability, and when to use each.
- Smart Cities Mobility Data: Urban Planner Guide — What city agencies, MPOs, and urban-planning consultancies actually need from mobility data — OD flows, dwell patterns, equity overlays, and privacy scoping.
- Travel & Hospitality 2026: Recovery Signals — What foot-traffic, CTV-exposure, and spend data reveal about the 2026 travel-and-hospitality recovery — by segment, by geography, by traveler cohort.