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Westlaw, Lexis, Elsevier, and SSRN belong to data brokers. What does that mean for professional responsibility and ethics? By Sarah Lamdan

by Lisa Tappeiner on 2021-11-10T10:19:00-05:00 | 0 Comments

A talk by CUNY Law Professor, Sarah Lamdan, discusses "how companies don't just sell research products to libraries and lawyers, they also sell personal data to local, state, and federal law enforcement, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and other entities that make big decisions about our civil rights. In this seminar, we'll see how companies like RELX and Thomson Reuters (and now, ProQuest) have transitioned from being publishers to being companies that collect and sell personal data products."

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