Manhattan Beach PD feeds 360,000 records to LexisNexis and is invisible on the company's public map https://fineprint.report/feed/manhattan-beach-pd-hidden-lexisnexis-contributor

For a long time, law enforcement has warned about the danger of the Flipper Zero, a security testing device used by many security professionals - myself included. But there's no widespread use by criminals, despite warnings. Today's alert is the first in years.

Maryland complaint names LexisNexis and Insight LPR as sellers of residents' vehicle location data https://fineprint.report/feed/maryland-complaint-lexisnexis-insight-lpr

HIDING VIDEOS: After multiple privacy and immigration rights groups filed a consumer complaint about data brokers to the Maryland Attorney General, LexisNexis quietly removed their demo video where they revel in how easy it is to track a person. Luckily, we archived it across multiple platforms.

Insight Lpr Get Started Video ( 1080p)

InsightLPR - LexisNexis AVCC Public Safety Marketplace

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New from Penlink - Instructors teaching law enforcement how to use Life360, Garmin, Uber, and rental car data to track subjects. Penlink is a software platform that ingest huge amounts of private data and makes it easy to track people and devices for law enforcement agencies.

ShotSpotter, recently rebranded into SoundThinking, has more police records than LexisNexis. From ALPR data to vehicle citations, crime victim details, and integrations with an FBI database that feeds into a private database - local police-generated data is frequently and widely shared.

Want to watch all the changes to Flock (and other ALPR) cameras in Minnesota? We created an automated system, with human reviewers, to monitor both Flock pages and the state's ALPR registry for any changes. They're reviewed and posted here: flockfeed.fineprint.report

California's sanctuary law and the LexisNexis contract, explained https://fineprint.report/feed/california-sanctuary-law-lexisnexis-explained

Elk Grove, CA shares over a million local police records with data broker LexisNexis https://fineprint.report/feed/elk-grove-ca-shares-over-a-million-police-records-with-lexisnexis

FOIA Finding: For the first time in my LexisNexis research, an agency signed their agreement with a clear understanding of the data sharing pipeline. Hawthorn, CA commissioned a legal report before proceeding with their AVCC contract. This should be a norm for surveillance adoption or data sharing.

Hawthorn CPRA - LexisNexis Accurint Virtual Crime Center Agreement

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Excellent write up - worth a full read.

Lawfare@lawfaremedia.org · 4w ago

"Twenty-five years after the U.S. government embraced mass surveillance, it’s time to evaluate it as a whole, and consider responses that address the problem as a whole," write Cindy Cohn and Bruce Schneier.

Elk Grove, CA (Just south of Sacramento) has shared over 2.25 million local police records with LexisNexis, giving them private VPN access to copy 911 call data and police reports daily. LexisNexis sells access to these records to other agencies, including ICE, for a profit.

NEW: Over 100 surveillance planes from EagleView are flying over America, capturing high resolution footage of homes, healthcare clinics, and everything in between. Data is fed to AI to label, and sold to police via LexisNexis. Read more at: fineprintreport.substack.com/p/the-spy-pl...

An Israeli firm coached Indonesia on finding gay men on Facebook and tracked a Mozambican opposition leader days after his arrest. Haaretz has its files. https://fineprint.report/feed/cyberglobes-haaretz-social-media-surveillance

FOIA / Public Records Pro Tip: Want to know what documents are published by police, how they share intel, and what insurance companies are sending to police about fraud? Request emails from RISS, or that contain the term "RISSLeads" or "ForeWARN" Use MuckRock to file and track your request!

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Teaser: Private companies are capturing ultra high resolution images from 50+ year old airplanes crisscrossing the country, and are selling them to police via LexisNexis. Article soon. If you have a tip about Eagleview or LexisNexis Public Safety Marketplace, we'd love to hear from you!

GOOD QUESTION: The 404 Media article about DHS looking at our finances has circulated far in the last two days. We talk to someone who knows about the secretive data pipeline from banks to the Treasury Department - aptly named the "Bank Secrecy Act" fineprintreport.substack.com/p/is-dhs-act...

Is DHS Actually Looking at American’s Financial Records?

A Treasury database built from millions of Suspicious Activity Reports is the most likely source behind Border Patrol's "predictive" traffic stops, but it’s illegal to reveal.

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LexisNexis told police departments nationwide to call the company before answering our public records requests https://fineprint.report/feed/lexisnexis-ceo-told-police-call-company-before-records-requests

NEW: LexisNexis tries to slow the flow of our research by requesting (or demanding) that local police reach out to them for approval before releasing public records - contrary to how most public records laws work in the United States. Then we received their email via a public records request.

LexisNexis told police departments nationwide to call the company before answering our public records requests

The CEO warns of a nationwide effort to uncover public records. One agency talked to LexisNexis and tried to send us nothing. We ended up getting their data anyway.

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Dearborn police send every type of report they write, including child sex abuse and medical calls, to a LexisNexis database the FBI and ICE can search https://fineprint.report/feed/dearborn-pd-shares-all-report-types-lexisnexis-psdex

Paragon's Owner Got $5.6M from General Dynamics in July. The Filing Doesn't Say Who Paid. https://fineprint.report/feed/paragon-redlattice-gdit-subaward-sep-2026

This is significant. The requirements listed in a recent procurement notice for ICE's renewed purchase of LexisNexis Risk's LexID and Accurint Virtual Crime Center products mention inferring identity from "behavioral indicators, device metadata, network signatures, commercial telemetry data".

Shawn Segal@shawnsegal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Yikes. ICE is asking LexisNexis to integrate with Palantir. This paragraph jumped out at me - they're looking to take "anonymized behavioral indicators" combine it with other data to "infer the identity of the end user." This sounds a lot like LexisNexis' ThreatMetrix, an anti-fraud product.

NEW: Video discovered on the inner-working of a major Flock competitor. The video shows InsightLPR integrated into the LexisNexis platform along side ClearviewAI (facial recognition) and BabelStreet (social media monitoring) to provide a 360 degree picture of a person - all without a warrant. 🧵1/4

Flock Competitor Is Integrating With FBI, DHS, Navy

A major competitor to Flock is integrating with the feds, and it has access to vast amounts of local data.

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Minneapolis police are buying license plate readers with forfeiture money https://fineprint.report/feed/minneapolis-police-lpr-forfeiture-funds

When ALPR vendors fail to fix ongoing problems, analysts who rely on it get frustrated. Sitting behind a desk while helping colleagues dealing with armed suspects seems stressful. Add the failure of expensive technology that you rely on - and you get an email like this. More on InsightLPR soon.

Maplewood police forwarded a records request about ICE data sharing to the company that holds their data https://fineprint.report/feed/maplewood-forwarded-records-request-to-lexisnexis

Maplewood, MN has their data copied by LexisNexis once per hour, at 46 minutes past the minute, every day. 1:46, 2:46, 3:46 every day, LexisNexis copies the city's police data into their own database, where they have a worldwide license to use and distribute it.

LexisNexis adds Traffic Jam by Marinus Analytics to its Mass Surveillance App Store (Public Safety Marketplace). Traffic Jam uses facial recognition and runs it against online sex worker advertisements. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28... solutions.risk.lexisnexis.com/Traffic-Jam-...

LexisNexis Traffic Jam for Human Trafficking

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Police departments keep telling me to FOIA LexisNexis and Flock. Do other researchers run into this? I'm quite confident that you can't request public records from a private company, but after the fifth department told me to, I'm curious if other researchers get told this as well?

FinFisher Collapsed. One of Its Managers Kept Selling. https://fineprint.report/feed/finfisher-adsum-predator-angola