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Category Archives: Personal Data

16 Feb

Grab your shields and swords – Congress is in session

Let’s get right to it. Congress is attempting to take away the tools of our trade. Private investigators want to stop the fraudsters but it’s counter productive to restrict private investigators, judgment collectors and process servers from accessing social security...
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Government, Legislation, Personal Data, Privacy 1 Comment

6 Feb

Does your company or law firm have guidelines on the use of pretexting?

The government pursuit of private investigators, lawyers and corporate officers caught in the HP and Pellicano imbroglios have raised awareness of some off-color investigative practices. Many of these – pretexting for customer telephone records and obtaining personal financial documents without...
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Personal Data, Research Methods 1 Comment

3 Feb

Why the judgments and liens databases will become obsolete

You may have noticed that there’s a trend toward eliminating personal identifiers – social security numbers, dates of birth and addresses – from all public records. Any publicly filed documents containing social security numbers are subject to being altered, removing...
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Government, Kansas, Missouri, Nevada, Personal Data, Public Records, Recorder, Vermont, Virginia 4 Comments

26 Jan

This week in public records – Puerto Rico – Nevada – New Hampshire

Search the Puerto Rico Sex Offenders Registry in Spanish or English. The Nevada Appeal News reports… The Churchill County Recorder’s Office began in August alerting those who do business with the office, such as title companies, that beginning Jan. 1,...
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Criminal, International, Nevada, New Hampshire, Personal Data, Public Records, Puerto Rico Leave a comment

16 Jan

Canadian PI perspective on personal information restrictions

Canadian private investigator, Kevin D. Bousquet has an extensive analysis of the detrimental effects of privacy regulation on the public and the everyday work of attorneys. [Thanks: Ca Privacy Law] The public is in panic over crimes like impersonation, bank...
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Canada, International, Personal Data, Privacy Leave a comment

12 Jan

Private Investigator to Plead Guilty in HP Probe

Several media outlets, including CBS News, Mercury News, and the Computer Business Review are reporting that one of the private investigators charged in the HP scandal will plead guilty today under a plea deal. It is reported that 29 year...
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Data Brokers, Government, Legislation, Litigation, Personal Data, PIs In the News, Privacy 2 Comments

25 Nov

Pretexting may not be pretty but often beats the alternative

The article, How Pretexting Helped Serve Divorce Papers on a Runaway Mother, recounts the all too common experience of a process server attempting to get legal papers to a party to a lawsuit, demonstrating why an outright ban on pretexting...
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5 Oct

FTC phone and financial records cases

The Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement of its complaint against Integrity Security & Investigation Services for “unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce” by obtaining telephone customer data and credit card purchase records. Four other similar...
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Government, Litigation, Personal Data, PIs In the News, Telco 1 Comment

20 Sep

HP Pretext documents delivered to Congress reveal reach of HP leak investigation

Purchasers of subscriber telephone records extend into multiple industries, among them are major corporations. The same names of providers of the telco records keep reappearing, suggesting that companies, such as Action Research Group, based in Florida, are the new Touch...
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Legislation, Personal Data, Privacy Leave a comment

18 Sep

HP pretexting debacle and reality journalism

The methods that HP contractors used to secure telephone call logs, “the pretext story”, repeated ad infinitum, has reporters looking for new approaches to this story. The San Jose Mercury News has posted the transcript of a call to Verizon...
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Florida, Iowa, Massachusetts, Personal Data, States, Telco Leave a comment