The next morning, Marcus Jr. presented Before the Break to the entire family. He'd prepared meticulously—slides showing the algorithm's design, testimonials from families they'd helped, statistics proving the program's effectiveness."We're not violating privacy," he explained. "Everything we access is already collected by government agencies, hospitals, schools. We're just the first ones to analyze it collectively. To see patterns that individual agencies miss.""That's exactly the problem," Isabella said. She was a lawyer now, having passed the bar two years earlier. "Just because data exists doesn't mean you have the right to aggregate it without consent. Each piece might be public, but the combination creates a profile no one agreed to.""But it saves lives," Marcus Jr. countered. "847 situations that didn't become trauma. 847 families that didn't break. Isn't that worth some discomfort about data analysis?""Discomfort?" Solana's voice was sharp. "Try violation. I've been on the
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