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🕵️♂️ Data brokers are gearing up to fight privacy bills | @theverge
「 Data brokers appear to be wading into the fight, too. Relx, the United Kingdom-based parent company of data analytics firm LexisNexis, hired the lobbying firm Venable earlier this year as the amendment was being debated in the House, Politico’s Influence newsletter reported 」
"The biggest source of conflict was an amendment ... that would prohibit #databrokers from selling consumer data to #lawenforcement and would require a warrant to access Americans’ information... National #security hawks in #Congress and local law enforcement groups joined forces to kill the amendment, with the National Sheriffs’ Association claiming it would “kneecap law enforcement” in a letter to Congress..."
Folks this #LexisNexis risk assessment product that vacuums up all automotive data and uses it to raise your insurance rates is none other than the offspring of #RELX, parent of #Elsevier. Far from being an isolated product unrelated to scholarly publishing, year after year in their promotional material they boast how these are integrated systems at both a technical and operational level - your prestige publications fund this, and your professional metrics sold via SciVal are part of the same pool of data.
Who wants to bet that funders wont blink at an "aggregated funding risk score that draws from our proprietary analytics data for a whole-researcher productivity profile." We're beyond surveillance conspiracy theories, these products are here today, and every prestige publication makes us complicit and digs the grave for our own profession.
Data brokers know a lot about us. They silently harvest any information they can find, by purchasing information, using trackers, scraping social media, inge...
#LexisNexis Is Selling Your Personal Data to #ICE So It Can Try to Predict #Crime #Immigration and Customs Enforcement uses LexisNexis to track #cars, gather information on people, and make #arrests for its #deportation machine. The unredacted contract overview provides a rare look at controversial $16.8 million agreement between LexisNexis and ICE. “The purpose of this program is mass surveillance at its core,” said Julie Mao, attorney and co-founder of Just Futures Law https://theintercept.com/2023/06/20/lexisnexis-ice-surveillance-license-plates/
They Sell Your Data to EVERYONE (youtu.be)
Data brokers know a lot about us. They silently harvest any information they can find, by purchasing information, using trackers, scraping social media, inge...