Mississippi Today (https://mississippitoday.org/tag/mimmo-parisi/)
Mimmo Parisi, a research center director and professor at Mississippi State University, takes otherwise confidential data from various state agencies about Mississippi residents to help Republican leaders shape public policy.
Parisi, who has quietly become one of the most influential figures in state government, says that connections Italian media are making between his work, Brexit and alleged data mining are bizarre. This week, a Jackson attorney took legal action in hopes of shedding light on the relationship between Parisi’s Mississippi State-based data lab, NSPARC, and Brexit architects.
A little-known research lab called NSPARC knows where Mississippians went to school, how much money they make and whether they’ve ever received food stamps. But finding out what the taxpayer-funded center at Mississippi State University does with all that information is much harder.