id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt www-inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe-org-4425 Librarianship at the Crossroads of ICE Surveillance – In the Library with the Lead Pipe .html text/html 8571 728 41 Companies like Thomson Reuters and RELX Group (formerly Reed Elsevier), are supplying billions of data points, bits of our personal information, updated in real time, to ICE's surveillance program.1 Our data is being collected by library vendors and sold to the police, including immigration enforcement officers, for millions of dollars. This article uses Thomson Reuters and RELX Group, major publishing corporations that own Westlaw and Lexis6 , as case studies to demonstrate how information consolidation and the rise of big data impact library privacy. For Thomson Reuters and RELX Group, data brokering diversifies profit sources as the companies transition their services from traditional publishing to become "information analytics" companies.18 These corporations are no longer the publishers that librarians are used to dealing with, the kind that focus on particular data types (academic journals, scientific data, government records, and other staples of academic, public, and specialized libraries). ./cache/www-inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe-org-4425.html ./txt/www-inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe-org-4425.txt