Lexis Nexis
LexisNexis, defined in its own words on Wikipedia:
LexisNexis claims to be the “world’s largest collection of public records, unpublished opinions, forms, legal, news, and business information”
But check out what it is like to actually use the system:
Our Sheriff’s department uses it (along with other services by the same company), and it’s downright scary the ammount of stuff they can pull.
Want all the blue and gray SUV’s that have a 9 and an F within a 100 mile radius of a given location? It can pull that up. Want to find out if a particular person has ANY connection to the owner of that vehicle. It can do that. As a demonstration it was able to connect our sherrif to a woman that his wife had been roomates with over 20 years ago (before they were even married).
It was astonishing how much information it could coordinate on any person in the room that we plugged into it.
I wonder what they know about me. Then again, Facebook and the internet probably make their job pretty simple for my generation.