Ross Mounce @rmounce@mastodon.social
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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.

inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.or

see also the book 'Data Cartels' (2022) by Sarah Lamdan.

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

www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org

Mike Check (he/him) @schema_sauce@mastodon.social
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@rmounceRoss Mounce @inthehandsPaul Cantrell Awesome that people are pointing this out. "For years, ICE has used the legal research and public records data broker 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."

techcrunch.com/2026/01/26/here

Here's the tech powering ICE's deportation crackdown  | TechCrunch

From phone spyware and facial recognition to phone unlocking technology and databases and more, this tech powers Trump's deportation machine.

techcrunch.com · TechCrunch

Link author: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai@lorenzofb@infosec.exchange

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