New York, United States
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) has signed a contract with the company for $ 16.8 billion LexisNexis Risk Solutions that provides you with personal information, the digital magazine reported this Friday The interception
It further indicates that apparently LexisNexis is a substitute for TRANSPARENT, a risk industry service operated by Thomson Reuters that has been crucial to the deportation efforts of ICE.
The media recalled that February Washington Post noted that the contract TRANSPARENT expired and that “it was not clear whether President Joe Biden’s administration will renew the deal” or award a new one.
He also indicated that the contract was shared by Mijente, a Latino advocacy group that has criticized links between ICE and technology companies allegedly “profiting from human rights violations”.
Explain that the contract shows that LexisNexis offer researchers of national security access billions of different records of aggregated personal data from a wide variety of public and private sources, including credit history, bankruptcy data, license plate images and mobile subscriber information.
The company, best known for its role as a powerful academic and legal research tool, will also provide analytical tools that can help law enforcement connect these massive data warehouses with the right person, it adds. The interception.
Emphasizes that LexisNexis Risk Solutions, serving the hugely lucrative “risk industry”, it is also being marketed to law enforcement agencies, with “advanced analytics to generate high-quality research leaders, produce actionable information and make informed decisions”, “in other words, to help people to find and arrest. “
In accordance with The interception the spokesperson for LexisNexis, Jennifer Richman, declined to report to which categories of data the company would provide ICE under the new contract, or whatever policy, if any, will dictate how the agency uses them.
“Our tool mainly contains data from public records. The most important non-public data is authorized by the Congress for such use in the law of protection of the Privacy from the directors and the statutes of the law Gramm-Leach-Bliley “, Indonesian Rich man to the magazine.