I'm increasingly convinced LexisNexis is an example of a pervasive monitoring/integration actor that has by this point scaled to the point their mere existence should be considered an attack.

The level of data aggregation, and the lengths gone through to acquire that data are just disturbing as all hell.

You can say, on the one hand that the fact they pop up everywhere is clearly a sign they provide a positive benefit to society, but nowhere I've been actually does anything to make you aware of what LexisNexis actually is, or what they provide. They're basically the Ur-example of the "Shadowy info-broker" tropeI've come across in real life.

The question that seems to be boiling to the top of life lately is whether or not there is a place in the world for a legitimate business whose business is to know as much as possible about everyone else's business.

The answer, from my perspective, is no, absolutely not. The market seems to deem otherwise.