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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

18 Dec

The year 2006 in legislation

Federal legislation that is awaiting the President’s signature: H.R. privacy related 4709: Telephone Records and Privacy Protection Act of 2006 (Passed Both Chambers) Passed Senate by Unanimous Consent. To amend title 18, United States Code, to strengthen protections for law...
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California, Government, Legislation, Privacy, States Leave a comment

16 Dec

Canadian Private Investigator Fined for Accessing Police Computer System

CBC News is reporting that Michael Robinson, a Saskatoon private investigator has pleaded guilty and agreed to pay a $20,000 fine for unlawfully accessing a police computer system at the Balcarres RCMP detachment. It seems that this is not the...
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Canada, International, PIs In the News, Privacy 1 Comment

14 Dec

British Private Detective ‘did 11,000 illicit jobs’ For UK Newspapers

Richard Thomas, the British Information Commissioner, has concluded in his report for Parliament that the means used by a private detective were probably illicit in more than 11,000 of the assignments. This information was the result of a police raid...
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Business, Government, International, PIs In the News, Privacy Leave a comment

9 Dec

Pretexting for Telephone Records One Step Closer to Becoming a Federal Crime

It may soon become a federal crime to obtain a person’s telephone records. The Senate made that possible Friday night when they approved legislation similar to a bill passed by the House. The Senate bill increases the proposed fine to...
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Government, Legislation, PI Business, PIs In the News, Privacy, Regulation 6 Comments

4 Dec

New Hampshire Court Rules Against Private Investigator in Stalking Case

A Concord Monitor online article is reporting that the New Hampshire State Supreme Court has upheld a Concord woman’s stalking petition against Brian Blackden, a local private investigator, partly because he refused to tell the court why he’d been hired...
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Litigation, New Hampshire, PIs In the News, Privacy, Regulation 5 Comments

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

23 Jul

Legislative research reports: shortcuts to topical summaries of state laws

State legislative research offices answer legislators’ questions and provide bill analysis, generating topical reports. These reports can include summaries of state laws that otherwise would take a researcher hours to compile. In June 2006, the Connecticut Office of Legislative Research...
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California, Connecticut, Legislation, Privacy, Public Records, States Leave a comment

3 May

The benefits and dangers of the social security number – Congress subcommittee webcast

A live webcast will be viewable for the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection hearing, Social Security Numbers in Commerce: Reconciling Beneficial Uses with Threats to Privacy. The webcast (realtime video and audio) is only available at the...
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27 Apr

Colorado data brokers –more than one bad rap

A Colorado newspaper has revisited a couple of sore subjects for private investigators: the closure of that states’ public records, which I detailed last month [read RCFP’s update]; the information broker whose high profile antics set in motion the Gramm-Leach-Bliley...
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Colorado, Privacy, States, Telco Leave a comment

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