This database is already widely used for identity verification by lenders and other industries that require verification. If you’ve ever been asked to verify your information online and get asked a bunch of questions about where you lived in 2012 or the license plate of your car, it might’ve come from this database.<p>It has numerous challenges - have you ever gotten a question and you’re pretty sure it shows information for a roommate or family member? That’s common. If you add a family member to a credit card, then you can expect to start seeing questions about you living at their address and all the things that cascade from it. It’s maddening.<p>But, the high noise doesn’t mean that it’s without value to ICE. Yes, it means that needle in a haystack approaches are going to lead to false positives. But, for most people there’s more correct than incorrect. Now, consider that this can be cross-referenced with an three government data sources that might not be in Lexis-Nexis and you’ve got a much larger potential issue.