Given all the news about ICE in the past few weeks, can I kindly remind you all that RELX (owners of Elsevier & LexisNexis) is "mission-critical" to ICE.
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Given all the news about ICE in the past few weeks, can I kindly remind you all that RELX (owners of Elsevier & LexisNexis) is "mission-critical" to ICE.
ICE pays RELX Group and Thomson Reuters millions of dollars for the personal data it needs to fuel its big data policing program.
https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2019/ice-surveillance/
see also the book 'Data Cartels' (2022) by Sarah Lamdan.
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Given all the news about ICE in the past few weeks, can I kindly remind you all that RELX (owners of Elsevier & LexisNexis) is "mission-critical" to ICE.
ICE pays RELX Group and Thomson Reuters millions of dollars for the personal data it needs to fuel its big data policing program.
https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2019/ice-surveillance/
see also the book 'Data Cartels' (2022) by Sarah Lamdan.
"Today, the [US] government is one of the biggest consumers of personal
information dossiers. RELX sells data brokering products to more than
7,500 federal, state, and local government agencies. Seventy percent of local governments and 80 percent of federal agencies use RELX data products, including 2,100 police departments and 955 sheriff departments."p31 Data Cartels (2022)
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Given all the news about ICE in the past few weeks, can I kindly remind you all that RELX (owners of Elsevier & LexisNexis) is "mission-critical" to ICE.
ICE pays RELX Group and Thomson Reuters millions of dollars for the personal data it needs to fuel its big data policing program.
https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2019/ice-surveillance/
see also the book 'Data Cartels' (2022) by Sarah Lamdan.
@rmounce If you remember the investigation of @themarkup and @netzpolitik_feed about data broker: #RELX (through #LexisNexis) is also dealing with data from researchers and other sensitive professional groups like lawyers, doctors etc (see the repo for this article). And #Elsevier, like other big publishers, is tracking researcher behavior in detail.
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Given all the news about ICE in the past few weeks, can I kindly remind you all that RELX (owners of Elsevier & LexisNexis) is "mission-critical" to ICE.
ICE pays RELX Group and Thomson Reuters millions of dollars for the personal data it needs to fuel its big data policing program.
https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2019/ice-surveillance/
see also the book 'Data Cartels' (2022) by Sarah Lamdan.
@JustinMac84 @rmounce Good Tuesday morning to you, Rhonda!
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Given all the news about ICE in the past few weeks, can I kindly remind you all that RELX (owners of Elsevier & LexisNexis) is "mission-critical" to ICE.
ICE pays RELX Group and Thomson Reuters millions of dollars for the personal data it needs to fuel its big data policing program.
https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2019/ice-surveillance/
see also the book 'Data Cartels' (2022) by Sarah Lamdan.
@rmounce @inthehands Awesome that people are pointing this out. "For years, ICE has used the legal research and public records data broker #LexisNexis to support its investigations.
In 2022, two non-profits obtained documents via Freedom of Information Act requests, which revealed that ICE performed more than 1.2 million searches over seven months using a tool called Accurint Virtual Crime Centerx
"This year, ICE has paid $4.7 million to subscribe to the service."
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/26/heres-the-tech-powering-ices-deportation-crackdown/
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@rmounce @inthehands Awesome that people are pointing this out. "For years, ICE has used the legal research and public records data broker #LexisNexis to support its investigations.
In 2022, two non-profits obtained documents via Freedom of Information Act requests, which revealed that ICE performed more than 1.2 million searches over seven months using a tool called Accurint Virtual Crime Centerx
"This year, ICE has paid $4.7 million to subscribe to the service."
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/26/heres-the-tech-powering-ices-deportation-crackdown/
@schema_sauce @rmounce @inthehands God I hope data aggregators like these choke and die on the AI slop that's drowning the rest of the internet. That would provide at least a tiny silver lining to the whole LLMs thing.
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@schema_sauce @rmounce @inthehands God I hope data aggregators like these choke and die on the AI slop that's drowning the rest of the internet. That would provide at least a tiny silver lining to the whole LLMs thing.
@tiotasram @rmounce @inthehands Now that you mention it, it's kind of a wonder that some smart person hasn't figured out a counter solution. Like maybe a way to use the same llm tools to string along random words into whatever sources/data they pull from. Sort of like what some users did during the r*ddit exodus.
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@rmounce @inthehands Awesome that people are pointing this out. "For years, ICE has used the legal research and public records data broker #LexisNexis to support its investigations.
In 2022, two non-profits obtained documents via Freedom of Information Act requests, which revealed that ICE performed more than 1.2 million searches over seven months using a tool called Accurint Virtual Crime Centerx
"This year, ICE has paid $4.7 million to subscribe to the service."
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/26/heres-the-tech-powering-ices-deportation-crackdown/
@schema_sauce @rmounce @inthehands The prediction technology that perpetuates and exaggerates existing stereotypes and biases? Sounds about right.
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@rmounce @inthehands Awesome that people are pointing this out. "For years, ICE has used the legal research and public records data broker #LexisNexis to support its investigations.
In 2022, two non-profits obtained documents via Freedom of Information Act requests, which revealed that ICE performed more than 1.2 million searches over seven months using a tool called Accurint Virtual Crime Centerx
"This year, ICE has paid $4.7 million to subscribe to the service."
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/26/heres-the-tech-powering-ices-deportation-crackdown/
