• GodlessCommie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I requested my data file from Lexis/Nexus several years ago, and the amount of personal data scraped from EVERYWHERE online was in it. AOL chat convos from the 90s, old, used once, throw away email addresses, pictures shared on social media. The damn thing was several inches thick and arrived in a box. We have zero privacy

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      1 year ago

      Why lie about this?

      LexisNexis specializes in law (the Lexis end) and news (the Nexis end)—the data they procure and collate.

      Their identity verification product, Accurint, accesses public record sources, and is imperative to keep pure. Inclusion of any private record data is a massive legal concern and actively monitored for.

      You don’t run a law service outfit without Legal being all up in your butt, and boy, were they.

      Source: I was responsible for testing deliverables across all LN products.

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      1 year ago

      How exactly does one do that?

      Edit: nvm I found the portal. I’m intrigued but I don’t know what I would do with mountains of porn urls.