James Louis SmithFeb 25
Ross Mounce

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

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

Jan 22 at 9:57amWeb
Show threadRoss MounceJan 22

"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)

Show threadRenkeSiemsJan 22

@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

From “Heavy Purchasers” of Pregnancy Tests to the Depression-Prone: We Found 650,000 Ways Advertisers Label You – The Markup

A spreadsheet on ad platform Xandr’s website revealed a massive collection of “audience segments” used to target consumers based on highly specific, sometimes intimate information and inferences