Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz (Daniel M. Goldberg) and companies selling data: legal or policy, company records (email, chat, code, HR)
Also warns that once data trains a model 'it cannot practically be pulled back out' and advises excluding privileged, HR, payroll, health, union and customer-confidential material rather than relying on de-identification.
Dated 6 Oct 2026Source checked 6 Oct 2026Quote found on its page again 16 Oct 2026Basis: stated
In the source's own words
“Assemble the Team. Legal, privacy, security, HR, and communications should be involved. These deals should not be run by business development alone. Do not share sample data before this review, since a sample itself could be a disclosure.”
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- Does any of the data belong to or describe your customers, and do your customer contracts and data processing agreements allow using it for anything other than serving them?
- Does the data contain other companies' confidential information, such as partner documents, pricing, roadmaps or anything shared under an NDA?
- Is any of it data or content you licensed from someone else, such as purchased contact lists, research reports, stock media, fonts or design kits?
- Do the records include staff discussing pay, working conditions or union matters, or is any workforce covered by a collective bargaining agreement?
- Does the data include legal advice, litigation material, or trade secrets (yours or other companies')?
- Has any sample of the data already been shown to a buyer or broker before this rights review?
What it is about
- Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz
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