Our researchersFive people, five beats. Each briefing carries its writer's name.

Maren Holt
Maren spent nine years in compliance at a consumer lender, answering the letters people send when they find their details somewhere they never put them. She writes about data brokers, people-search sites and the opt-out requests that actually get records removed.
4 briefings

Tomás Arriaga
Tomás grew up in Rosario and worked as a researcher for trade publications in Buenos Aires and Santiago, checking companies before deals and features. He covers company research and business registries, with a soft spot for how Latin American tax IDs and gazettes work.
3 briefings

Priya Raman
Priya worked on account-security teams at two software companies, mostly on login abuse and phishing. She writes the online safety guides here: passwords, two-step sign-in, scam calls and what to do in the first hour after a breach notice.
3 briefings

Wendell Ostrowski
Wendell was a deputy clerk in a Midwestern county office and later a paralegal handling records requests. He explains public records from the counter side: what courts, recorders and election offices keep, who can see it and how to ask for corrections.
3 briefings

Hannah Leclerc
Hannah is a policy analyst who has followed privacy law from the first state statutes to the GDPR. She writes about the rules behind the data trade, from the Fair Credit Reporting Act to new state laws and the rights they give ordinary people.
3 briefings