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Addressing the Alarming Systems of Surveillance Build by Library Vendors - By SPARC

by Linda Miles on 2021-04-28T18:33:27-04:00 | 0 Comments

On April 2nd, news broke that RELX subsidiary LexisNexis signed a multi-million dollar contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). According to reporting on the ICE contract by the Intercept, LexisNexis’ databases “offer an oceanic computerized view of a person’s existence” and will provide the agency with “the data it needs to locate people with little if any oversight.”

While this contract may be new, it is just the latest development in an alarming trend that SPARC is following. (SPARC)

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