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25 May

New York AG Exacts Fine from US Search

Data reseller USSearch.com will pay $250,000 for accessing and selling non-public personally identifiable information obtained from credit bureaus. The New York Attorney General determined that US Search illegally accessed the consumer information more than 2,385 times. If they sold each...
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30 Mar

Guide to phone records privacy

Selected Laws Governing the Disclosure of Customer Phone Records by Telecommunications Carriers, a recently released Congressional Research Service report, summarizes the laws, legislation and congressional actions related to telephone call log records. The Federation of American Scientists has a database...
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29 Dec

The armchair investigator: Employment background on the Internet

The online telephone directory, 411.com isn’t just for finding listed telephone numbers. Use it to identify current employment or to expand the employment history profile of your subject. A search on my name in California returned 40 results. Some are...
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Connecticut, Databases, Government, Legislation, Personal Data, Public Records, States 1 Comment

9 Dec

Monday, December 10 FTC workshop on Social Security numbers

This 1 1/2 day workshop starts at 8:30am and will be Webcast. The agenda of topics and speakers from government and commerce, and professional and advocacy groups, is prominently sprinkled with privacy activists who take absolutist positions against access by...
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Government, Personal Data, Public Records 1 Comment

18 Aug

Scrubbing and promoting your online image or uncovering someone else’s

The profile you proudly blast across the Internet today may be one that makes you cringe tomorrow. Perhaps this is more the case as the general use of the Internet grows out of adolescence. You need not quake because for...
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4 Jul

This week in public records: Alabama – California – Maine – Virginia

The well established may disappear overnight in the realm of online government records. Visitors to the Jefferson County, Alabama Probate Court online records search – the site for images of land records, personal property and probate recordings – were recently...
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1 Jul

U.S. Postal Service employees are added to employment verification service

The Work Number has added the U.S. Postal Service to its roster of employers that have employment and salary verifications listed at this online service. Search by current or former employee name and Social Security number to receive dates of...
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24 Jun

Database of the Day: Federal and state employee names and salaries

See the recently added category – What’s New At… – in the left sidebar, which includes a link to the collection of databases assembled by the Asbury Park Press. Just online is the salary database of 2006 federal employees. Search...
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23 Jun

Government seeks to further restrict the use and display of the Social Security number

A federal legislative hearing spotlighted (once again) the widespread display of Social Security numbers in public records.Various speakers at the recent House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security discussed the problems of identity theft. Justin Yurek of ID Watchdog,...
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14 May

This week in public records: California – Maryland – Nevada – Idaho – Montana

Gifts, investments, outside income, business relationships and other economic interests of top public agency employees and elected officials of San Bernardino County, California are now posted online in a database. Search by filer name, filing date, position or department name....
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California, Government, Idaho, Legislation, Maryland, Montana, Nevada, Personal Data, Public Records, States 1 Comment