I am being asked to become a "Data Broker" in government. This seems an old mid 1990's term yet I see nothing in the list archive around this concept or role. While I know service behaviour I am looking to read something in the nature of a business book or deeper study with a social science or technical foundation that can help me move along to get into this role. The boss asking this is also a former Internet Studies scholar so he may be lifting this term "Data Broker" from the 1990's. I work in a national statistics agency where sometimes I write about internet use statistics but this is only a sometime job that I am allowed because I have read the work of many A o IR scholars. My real in demand skills are statistical programming not my knowledge of the Internet. So do you have any references to studies talking about "Data Brokers"?