@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/

@JustinMac84 @rmounce Good Tuesday morning to you, Rhonda!

@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.

https://themarkup.org/privacy/2023/06/08/from-heavy-purchasers-of-pregnancy-tests-to-the-depression-prone-we-found-650000-ways-advertisers-label-you

"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)