New York, USA
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) signed a $ 16.8 billion contract with the company LexisNexis risk solutions that will provide him with personal information data, as reported this Friday by the digital magazine The interception.
It also indicates that in appearance LexisNexis is a replacement for CLAR, a risk industry service operated by Thomson Reuters which has been crucial to the deportation efforts of ICE CREAM.
The media recalled that February the Washington Post noted that the contract CLAR expired and that “it was unclear whether the Administration of President Joe Biden will renew the deal” or award a new one.
He further stated that the contract was shared with them by Mijente, a Latino advocacy organization that has criticized the links between ICE CREAM and technology companies that are allegedly “benefiting from human rights abuses.”
He explains that the contract shows that LexisNexis will provide researchers with National security access to billions of different records containing aggregated personal data from a wide range of public and private sources, including credit history, bankruptcy records, license plate images, and cell 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 police connect these data warehouses with the right person, he adds. The interception.
highlights that LexisNexis Risk Solutions, which also caters to the immensely lucrative “risk” industry, is also marketed to law enforcement agencies, offering “advanced analysis to generate quality research leads, produce processable intelligence, and drive informed decisions.” “in other words, to find and arrest people.”
In accordance with The interception the spokeswoman for LexisNexis, Jennifer Richman, refuse to report what categories of data the company would provide to ICE CREAM under the new contract, or what policies, if any, govern how the agency uses them.
“Our tool contains data mainly from public government records. The main non-public data is authorized by the Congress for such uses in the Protection Act of the privacy of the Drivers and the statutes of the Act Gramm-Leach-Bliley “, has indicated Rich man in the magazine.