California residents, here's the data deletion form: https://consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com/request#california
LexisNexis is selling personal data to ICE so it can try to predict crimes
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
I imagine chop shop owners would destroy all nearby license plate cameras when setting up their location.
That would still narrow down the search quite a bit. Unless you think the cops won't notice a 10 block area where all the cameras are broken.
Yes, but that only matters if the cops are willing to search the buildings on all of those blocks for crimes. All the criminals need to do is prevent them from narrowing it down to an area that could be searchable.
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#43It's pretty crazy that our legislators and courts haven't addressed this loophole that allows law enforcement agencies to buy data that they can't legally collect. This essentially nullifies the fourth amendment.
idlewords said a long time ago that "If the data is gathered at all, the government can get to it; whether it is on private or public servers is an irrelevant implementation detail. The only way to keep data out of government hands is to not collect it". Nobody wanted to listen to this because taking it seriously would mean tearing down large portions of the ad infrastructure that keeps the tech industry humming. But he was still right even if nobody wants to admit it.
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#44California residents, here's the data deletion form: https://consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com/request#california
Is there any downsides to deleting or opting out?
Eg if you opt out of credit agencies then you have trouble getting credit cards and loans.
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#45Does anyone think this just applies to migrants and ICE agents? We are already moving into a minority report style future … or maybe better said we are racing towards it now.
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#46You can get a free copy of what LexisNexis has on you, just like you can with your credit report. The difference is that the LexisNexis report is book thick for most people. The amount of information far exceeds what the credit bureaus have. In my case, quite a bit of it was wrong but adjacent. It thought I owned a huge commercial building, which was actually owned by the developer of a condo I owned in another part…
https://consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com/request
Is anyone else hitting errors submitting the request?
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#47California residents, here's the data deletion form: https://consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com/request#california
Thanks for this. Sadly, but not surprisingly, it is broken with the following error: "A system error has occurred and we are not able to process your request. Please try again later."
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#48Somewhat related, the anonymously sourced and unprovenanced document "PROTON, CLEARWATER and Lexis-Nexis"[1] provided to cryptome August 2013 in the wake of the Snowden revelation of "parallel construction" - though not itself from Snowden as far as we know - has the following: > All members of the Intelligence Community have access to LEXIS-NEXIS. [...] All domestic law enforcement has access to LEXIS-NEXIS, its a f…
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#49It's pretty crazy that our legislators and courts haven't addressed this loophole that allows law enforcement agencies to buy data that they can't legally collect. This essentially nullifies the fourth amendment.
For emails in the cloud, and probably other data, they don't need a warrant if it's 6 months or older anyways. So they probably can force them to give it out for free. But either way they have a black budget so we are fucked in many ways.
https://emailserverprovider.com/emails-texts-documents-older...
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#50It's pretty crazy that our legislators and courts haven't addressed this loophole that allows law enforcement agencies to buy data that they can't legally collect. This essentially nullifies the fourth amendment.
How tempting would it be to use blackmail to influence a democratic election.
Given this national security blackmail apparatus exists how can we be sure this insidious rootkit hasn’t already been deployed?
Epstein was able to have bill gates in his back pocket due to knowing about his affair. Imagine having access to that kind of leverage on every reporter journalist activist politician etc. I can’t be sure the integrity of our democracy is even still intact