Settlement Probes: Data-Derived Advertising Revenue

The Settlement Papers — Paper II

This paper applies the previously published legitimacy standard.

Probe 001

Examined revenue stream

Advertising revenue derived from persistent behavioral profiling and inferred attributes across sessions.

Authority

Authority is inferred from platform use. No person-specific, purpose-bounded authorization exists. Silence is treated as consent.

Fails authority requirement.

Disclosure

Data categories are partially disclosed. Inference logic is undisclosed. Persistence duration is undefined. Effects of refusal are unclear.

Fails disclosure requirement.

Compensation

No direct compensation is provided to originating persons. Value is returned in the form of access and services.

Fails compensation requirement.

Refusal survivability

Refusal requires active configuration. Refusal degrades service quality. Non-participation produces cumulative disadvantage.

Fails refusal survivability.

Determination

DOES NOT CLEAR — legitimacy not established.

Probe 002

Examined revenue stream

Advertising revenue derived from explicitly licensed personal digital information with per-use settlement attribution.

Authority

Authorization is explicit, prior, person-specific, purpose-bounded, and revocable without penalty.

Meets authority requirement.

Disclosure

Data types are enumerated. Collection methods are specified. Persistence duration is declared. Sharing and inference are bounded. Effects of refusal are stated as neutral.

Meets disclosure requirement.

Compensation

Direct monetary compensation is provided. Compensation is proportional to use, traceable to the revenue stream, and independent of platform discretion.

Meets compensation requirement.

Refusal survivability

Refusal requires no action beyond silence. Service baseline is unchanged. No signaling or cumulative disadvantage occurs.

Meets refusal survivability.

Determination

CLEARS — legitimacy established.

End of Probes

Threshold determines whether a revenue stream can be relied upon externally.