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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.

inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.or…

see also the book 'Data Cartels' (2022) by Sarah Lamdan.

#Elsevier #RELX #ICE #complicity

Librarianship at the Crossroads of ICE Surveillance – In the Library with the Lead Pipe

www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org
#ice #elsevier #relx #complicity
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Mike Check (he/him)
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@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."

techcrunch.com/2026/01/26/here…


Here's the tech powering ICE's deportation crackdown  | TechCrunch

From phone spyware and facial recognition to phone unlocking technology and databases and more, this tech powers Trump's deportation machine.
Zack Whittaker (TechCrunch)
#lexisnexis @Paul Cantrell
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Tiota Sram
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Tiota Sram
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@schema_sauce @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.
@Paul Cantrell @Mike Check (he/him)
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Mike Check (he/him)
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@tiotasram @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.
@Paul Cantrell @Tiota Sram
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