Activist BJ Ostergren is highlighting the availability of politicians’ social security numbers to stomp for the removal of government public records from the Internet. I’m not sure of the basis for her conclusions. Ostergren sees the solution in more simple...
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The nation’s largest association for investigation and security services companies (NCISS) has outlined a multipart proposal for Congressional action to protect personal information. * Data brokers should conduct thorough credentialing of new accounts and those where a review indicates that...
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Jimmie Mesis, owner of the widely read PI Magazine, expands on his interview with the FTC on the legalities of using a pretext to gather information, at the California Association of Licensed Investigators conference this June in Reno, Nevada. He’ll...
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Reporters in a Pennsylvania survey find that 40 percent of police departments decline to release records that are stipulated by law as open to the public. I previously wrote about similar intransigence in California, Nevada and New York. police...
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Accoona search engine adds a business search button that connects you to the company web page and the Dun & Bradstreet Quick Profile. This provides the company contact person, address, sales volume and number of...
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Come to the California Association of Licensed Investigators conference June 22-24 and discover, Marketing Secrets for Private Investigators, presented by our featured speaker, Nader Anise, the nation’s leading authority on legal marketing. See what’s happening,...
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The NTSB searchable database has civil aviation accidents and selected incidents within the United States, from 1962...
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It looks like Google but blogdigger just indexes blogs. Now it too has a local search. I guess this means you can find weblogs in your hometown that write about...
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The New York Times piece, Personal Data for the Taking: Students Find It’s Easy to Find Out a Lot About People, is mostly a less alarmist rehash of the Western world’s debate over the extent to which public records should...
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