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ICE to Pay LexisNexis Millions for Data to Feed to Palantir
ICE will pay LexisNexis millions more dollars for continued data access feeding Palantir's ELITE platform used by Enforcement and Removal Operations.
Newly published procurement records show ICE plans to pay LexisNexis millions more dollars for continued access to data that feeds Palantir's ELITE platform. The system helps ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations identify which neighborhoods to target by combining data from private suppliers and government agencies. The news comes as ICE arrested more than 51,000 people in July, many of them at airports.
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Loyalty points fraud is funding hacker holidays (Lock and Code S07E18)
Malwarebytes' Lock and Code podcast examines loyalty-points theft, with LexisNexis' Kim Sutherland explaining why stolen airline and hotel points are lucrative for fraudsters.
LexisNexis Risk Solutions' Kim Sutherland says loyalty currency is worth roughly one cent per point, making 100,000 airline points worth about $1,000 in the US. Cited incidents include a Chicago teacher who lost 240,000 airline points, discovered only via a confirmation email, and a man whose miles were used to book rental cars in New York and Memphis. The episode discusses how points theft happens and what companies and consumers can do.
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