For trustees and receivers
Check if the estate's data fitsWhen a company winds down, its servers often go to auction or get wiped. The operational knowledge on them (SOPs, tickets, project histories) may have value to AI labs as an anonymized dataset, potentially adding recovery for creditors.
Why consider it
- Our partner states companies have been paid $100K to $2M+ per approved data package (source: partner company-referral page). Results vary and are not guaranteed.
- Data is anonymized before licensing.
- Fits alongside a normal asset realization process.
Privacy obligations come first
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner has found a court-appointed trustee administering a bankruptcy acts in the course of commercial activity under PIPEDA (OPC, PIPEDA Case Summary #2006-336). The Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy's position paper on outsourcing expects trustees to assess privacy risk and protect estate information, and strongly discourages storing it outside Canada without notice. PIPEDA's business-transaction exception (s. 7.2) does not cover deals whose main purpose is selling personal information (s. 7.2(4)). Anonymized, non-personal operational data is the focus here. Get legal advice and, where needed, court approval.
Next step
Check whether the estate's data fits, then apply.
Check eligibility Apply to license your dataRelated: data as an insolvency asset: full guide, how data is valued and PIPEDA anonymization.