Data Broker Status
Last updated: May 6, 2026
Social Intelligence Labs is not a data broker under California, Texas, Vermont, or Oregon law as we read those statutes. The Service provides content and audience analytics on publicly available information about accounts that have voluntarily made their profiles public for the purpose of being discovered for business and creator-economy purposes. We are not in the business of selling the personal information of consumers with whom we have no direct relationship in the manner those statutes target.
This page records the statutes we have reviewed and the basis for our position. The page will be updated if a regulator clarifies an interpretation or if our processing changes in a way that affects the analysis.
Statutes reviewed
California
Statute: Cal. Civ. Code §§1798.99.80–1798.99.88 (as amended by SB 362 / DELETE Act)
Registry: California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA)
Defines a data broker as a business that knowingly collects and sells personal information of consumers with whom it does not have a direct relationship. Most of our scanned-profile data is "publicly available" under Cal. Civ. Code §1798.140(v)(2) and is outside the definition of "personal information"; the data we do treat as personal information about Customers is not sold. We monitor the CCPA Data Broker Deletion Mechanism (DROP) developments and will integrate if our analysis ever changes.
Vermont
Statute: 9 V.S.A. §§2446–2447
Registry: Vermont Secretary of State
Vermont's definition reaches data brokers selling brokered personal information of consumers with whom they have no direct relationship. Our processing of publicly available audience information for content/audience analytics, with deletion on request, does not match that pattern.
Texas
Statute: Tex. Bus. & Com. Code Ch. 509
Registry: Texas Secretary of State
Texas's data-broker statute targets the sale of personal information of consumers with whom the broker has no direct relationship. Our service produces analytics for an account holder about their own audience using publicly available data; we are not aggregating profiles for third-party resale.
Oregon
Statute: ORS 646A.500 series
Registry: Oregon Department of Consumer & Business Services
Oregon's definition mirrors the structure of California and Vermont. The same analysis applies.
If you appear in a scan
Whether or not the data-broker statutes apply, anyone whose handle appears in a Service report can request deletion via Privacy Policy §10 or by emailing privacy@whofollowsme.app. We delete cached profile data, the LLM-classification cache row, and add the (platform, handle) pair to a no-fetch list within 7 business days. The same path is the California opt-out at /legal/do-not-sell.
Cross-references: Privacy Policy §10 (removal requests), §17.A (California), §18 (data-broker status), Do Not Sell or Share.