What do these personal agreements entail? It varies, probably. Some datasnoops will, as a matter of course, provide wrong answers to anyone asking questions about the corp that’s got them on the string. Others will simply stall while they pass the word back to the corp that someone’s asking prying questions about them. I can’t believe that every registered datasnoop is on every corp’s string, and there might even be one or two out there not on anyone’s string, but finding someone who will give you straight answers and not rat you out to the corp you’re interested in becomes a real crapshoot.