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.
"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)
