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🚨 > According to the report, car companies reserve the right to collect details including your name, age, race, weight, financial details, facial expressions, psychological trends and more. Kia's privacy policy, for example, suggests the company may even collect details about your "sex life" and general health.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260513-your-car-is-spying-on-you-its-about-to-get-worse

#privacy #surveillance #cars
#bbc #mozilla #lexisnexis
#federaltradecommission
#autoinsurance #datatracking
#generalmotors #honda #hyundai
#kia #infotainmentsystems
#UK #EU #US #NHTSA
#databrokers #drivingapps

Trillions of miles of data: Your car is spying on you, and it's only just the beginning

From your weight and facial expressions to your destination, cars collect a startling amount of data about you. Some of it may even raise your insurance costs.

BBC

gtbarry May 14

General Motors to pay $12.75m settlement for selling drivers’ location and data

General Motors agreed to pay $12.75m to resolve claims that it illegally sold hundreds of thousands of Californians’ location and driving data to data brokers

#Verisk #LexisNexis #GeneralMotors #GM #California #surveillance #privacy #legal #technology #tech

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/08/general-motors-settlement-driving-location

General Motors to pay $12.75m settlement for selling drivers’ location and data

Automaker had given ‘numerous statements reassuring drivers that it would not do so’, says California attorney general

The Guardian

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petersuber Mar 12

Update. While the #ThomsonReuters employee letter is not yet public, #Poynter quotes from it: "The detrimental actions of #ICE, and the #DHS’s lack of oversight and direct falsehoods regarding the situation in #Minnesota and other cities, makes us question if our investigative products and services are being used in accordance with our mission and values, as well as in accordance with the law and our nation’s constitution.”
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2026/law360-reuters-newsrooms-letter-against-ice-dhs/

The same article links to a similar letter from #RELX employees to management about a $22.1 million contract with ICE. RELX is the parent company of #LexisNexis and #Elsevier.
https://www.poynter.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/law360-demand-letter.pdf

That letter is public. From the RELX employee letter: "We are deeply concerned that RELX is directly aiding the separation of families, the removal of children from schools and the death of individuals in detention centers."

RELX deleted a page from its FAQ, posted during the Biden administration, saying that its tools would not be used for these purposes. But here's a copy from the #WaybackMachine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230307061658/https://risk.lexisnexis.com/government/our-services-for-homeland-security

#Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Journalists push back against parent companies’ contracts with ICE - Poynter

From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers.

Poynter

ResearchBuzz: Firehose Mar 10

The Register: LexisNexis confirms data breach at Legal & Professional arm, some customer records affected. “Data analytics giant LexisNexis has confirmed its Legal & Professional division suffered a data breach days after the Fulcrumsec cybercrime crew claimed responsibility for the hack.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/10/the-register-lexisnexis-confirms-data-breach-at-legal-professional-arm-some-customer-records-affected/

The Register: LexisNexis confirms data breach at Legal & Professional arm, some customer records affected

The Register: LexisNexis confirms data breach at Legal & Professional arm, some customer records affected. “Data analytics giant LexisNexis has confirmed its Legal & Professional di…

ResearchBuzz: Firehose

CyberVeille.ch Mar 5

📢 LexisNexis confirme une intrusion; 2 Go de données divulguées après une exploitation « React2Shell »
📝 Selon BleepingComputer, LexisNexis Legal & Professional a confirmé qu...
📖 cyberveille : https://cyberveille.ch/posts/2026-03-05-lexisnexis-confirme-une-intrusion-2-go-de-donnees-divulguees-apres-une-exploitation-react2shell/
🌐 source : https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lexisnexis-confirms-data-breach-as-hackers-leak-stolen-files/
#AWS #LexisNexis #Cyberveille

LexisNexis confirme une intrusion; 2 Go de données divulguées après une exploitation « React2Shell »

Selon BleepingComputer, LexisNexis Legal & Professional a confirmé qu’un tiers non autorisé a accédé à un nombre limité de serveurs, après la mise en ligne par l’acteur FulcrumSec d’une archive de 2 Go présentée comme issue de l’entreprise. Type d’événement : violation de données et intrusion confirmées par LexisNexis L&P. L’entreprise indique que les informations dérobées seraient anciennes et majoritairement non critiques, incluant « certaines données clients et d’entreprise ».

CyberVeille

TechNadu Mar 4

Incident overview: LexisNexis Legal & Professional division.

Confirmed unauthorized access to limited servers containing mostly legacy data (pre-2020). Data reportedly included:
• Customer identifiers
• Business contact information
• Support tickets, survey IP addresses
• Account records for agencies and firms

Company position:
– Contained incident
– No SSNs or financial data involved
– No product/service compromise observed
– Forensic firm engaged, law enforcement notified

Legacy data remains a recurring exposure vector:
Weak segmentation
Reduced monitoring priority
Accumulated credential reuse
Extended retention without operational necessity
Are your deprecated systems treated as high-risk assets or low-priority archives?

Source: https://therecord.media/lexisnexis-says-hackers-accessed-legacy-data

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gtbarry Mar 4

LexisNexis confirms data breach as hackers leak stolen files

LexisNexis L&P is a global provider of legal, regulatory, and business information, research tools, and analytics used by lawyers, corporations, governments, and academic institutions in more than 150 countries worldwide - confirmed hackers breached its servers

#LexisNexis #legal #government #education #databreach #security #cybersecurity #hackers #hacking #hacked

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lexisnexis-confirms-data-breach-as-hackers-leak-stolen-files/

LexisNexis confirms data breach as hackers leak stolen files

American data analytics company LexisNexis Legal & Professional has confirmed to BleepingComputer that hackers breached its servers and accessed some customer and business information.

BleepingComputer

Mercurial Feb 22

The #firsttime I saw #internet it was on a internship-fieldtrip to a #legal #library (wanted to be a lawyer then, 1995). So they showed us #LexisNexis (remembered as nexuslexus), it amazed me.
search all newspapers for any name? Was this the internet? Vivid memory. Even found my dad on there.

but on second thought, we were using AOL chat at home, and we had email. But we DIDNT have google search, right? we didn’t have browsers yet. Those came next, on CD discs to install for free via dialup phone connection.