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12 Sep

Search Private Facebook Notes

Facebook profiles — “info” and “wall” pages — are often viewable to others in the same network, providing historical and real-time intelligence for your investigations. All this can be done passively without a special request to “friend” them. I have...
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Privacy, Public Records, Social Networks facebook notes, Privacy, Social Networks 1 Comment

14 Jun

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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Alaska, Personal Data, Privacy, States 1 Comment

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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Government, Legislation, Litigation, Personal Data, Privacy, Regulation, Telco Leave a 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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Personal Data, Privacy, Research Methods Leave a comment

13 Apr

Corporate governance and private investigations

It’s not a new state of affairs when corporate America confuses unethical or illegal activity with corporate governance rights and responsibilities. The self designated all-American business, Wal-Mart, which fired two executives for hanky-panky that violated company policy, had an employee...
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Business, Privacy, Surveillance Leave a comment

28 Feb

California Supreme Court ruling on misrepresentation and invasion of privacy

The California Supreme Court has ruled that a county trial court must determine whether a psychologist used subterfuge to obtain an interview with the foster mother of a woman who had claimed as an adult a repressed memory of childhood...
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California, Litigation, Personal Data, Privacy, States 1 Comment

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

23 Jan

2007 Legislation

A federal bill to establish a nationwide drug dealers registry has been referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. HR 304, quaintly entitled, Clean Town Act of 2007, if enacted, would set forth “guidelines and incentives for States to...
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California, Indiana, Legislation, Privacy, States, Texas 2 Comments

22 Jan

Proposed New Hampshire Legislation Would Allow Video & Audio Taping on Private Land

You would never think that a law would be needed to video tape on your own property, but an online news article reports a NH Legislator wants to make sure the law is clear. A Nashua man was actually arrested...
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Legislation, New Hampshire, PIs In the News, Privacy, Regulation 3 Comments

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

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