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My Favorite Private Investigator Links
Website links of interest to private investigators, librarians, lawyers and information researchers. Connect6° | The fastest way to discover and contact people GPS Visualizer: Convert addresses to GPS coordinates Thrifty Car Rental – Blue Chip Member ID Finder(Removed by request.)...
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Killing the Social Security Death Index?
If enacted as proposed, a provision in the federal 2014 Budget would eliminate most public access to the Death Master File, also known as the Social Security Death Index (SSDI). The United States Department of the Treasury is recommending a...
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Public Records, Not Public Records and Private Investigators
Government agencies won’t put public records on the Internet but the former Santa Bernardino County Assessor found a technological runaround to making his emails a public record. A private investigator and the former supervisor of the Worthless Check Division in...
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New York Chills Employment Investigations
The phrase “personal information” and “identity theft” have become so intertwined that legislatures have rushed to implement laws which have detrimental outcomes for investigations. Recently codified New York law would subject employers to a $500 penalty for disclosing “personal identifying...
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Facebook, Criminal Records and People Finders
A new feature has been introduced at the most popular social networking site, Facebook — which it’s calling Truescoop –, a name search that identifies people by their state of residence and date of birth and, for some, criminal record...
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Do Public Records Belong To the Public?
The Iowa legislature is chewing over the notion that open government records may be responsible for identity theft and should be restricted. The Identity Theft Prevention Study Committee met last month and developed a collection of recommendations, including redacting certain...
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This week in public records: Alaska Social Security number protection
Alaska is purported to have instituted one of the strongest identity theft protection laws through HB 25. Although the bill sets out restrictions on the collection, sale and distribution to third parties of Social Security numbers, the exceptions should cover...
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FTC Reaches Settlement With Investigators Involved In The HP Spy Scheme
The FTC reached an agreement on Wednesday for $600,000 in settlements and judgments against several private investigators others involved in the Hewlett-Packard Co. boardroom scandal. The FTC settlement imposed a $67,000 penalty against Matthew DePante, his father, Joseph DePante, and...
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Impersonation to obtain personal information snares researchers and private investigators
Impersonating someone to a government agency or hiring another to carry out this ruse could result in a criminal prosecution. The operators of BNT Investigations, which was not licensed in Washington state, where they were based, plead guilty to crimes...
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