LexisNexis
Legal and business information company
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| June 4 2025 | LexisNexis launched Protégé, an AI-powered legal assistant designed to provide personalized support for legal professionals, marking a significant advancement in their technological offerings. |
| 2024 | LexisNexis recognized and celebrated Asia's Future Leaders of the Legal Profession through a publication on their website highlighting 40 under 40 legal professionals. |
| April 17 2024 | A privacy class action lawsuit was filed against LexisNexis regarding unauthorized use of personally identifiable information for promoting Lexis Personal Records Products, involving residents from California and Illinois. |
| March 4 2024 | A class-action lawsuit was filed against LexisNexis in New Jersey by two anonymous plaintiffs, alleging violation of Daniel's Law. The lawsuit represents over 18,000 individuals and claims LexisNexis failed to remove personal information of government officials, froze credit reports, and published comprehensive reports on family members, including minors as young as 13 years old. |
| 2023 | The French data protection authority CNIL fined LexisNexis €100,000 for failing to properly inform individuals about how their data was being used and not obtaining necessary consent for data processing. |
| 2022 | LexisNexis was sued by privacy advocates over allegations of illegally using facial recognition technology to scan images of people without their consent. |
| 2022 | LexisNexis Risk Solutions was sued by immigration advocates for allegedly illegally collecting and selling personal data to third parties, including federal immigration authorities, with the lawsuit claiming the company's practices threatened civil liberties. |
| 2021 | A report by the Norwegian Consumer Council revealed that LexisNexis had collected extensive personal data on millions of individuals, including names, addresses, phone numbers, and social media activity, without explicit consent. |
| February 2020 | LexisNexis transitioned its database services to Amazon Web Services cloud architecture and shut down its legacy mainframes and servers. |
| November 2019 | Legal scholars and human rights activists publicly called on LexisNexis to stop working with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), criticizing the company's data provision that supports deportation of undocumented migrants. |
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