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.

#Elsevier #RELX #ICE #complicity

@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

@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