Insurance companies are now going to have to request driver license updates on an individual name basis rather than a daily pooled update of all drivers. In a ruling that gives additional privacy protection to drivers in Utah, the state...
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Some part of the popular InfoUSA phone directory database will be added to the Google Local search. Will it have the full flexibility of the PowerFinder search tool’s function that allows the searcher to limit businesses returned by SIC code...
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Lawyers are in the D.C. federal appeals court seeking a special exemption to certain privacy provisions in the 1999 Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, arguing that they are already regulated by the states. The same applies to private investigators, though, to be fair,...
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I guess we can blame the proliferation of search engines on the success of Google. Maybe these new entrants are bringing something new to search or perhaps the computer taxonomists just have a lot of time on their hands. OfficialFind...
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Wake me up by 8:30am on June 22nd so I can say a lot about Internet information searching. Oh, I’ll be in Reno, Nevada at the California Association of Licensed Investigators (CALI) 38th Annual Conference from June 22 – 24,...
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Larry Abramson has a report today on the NPR radio program, All Things Considered, that features interviews with several investigators (including me) highlighting the detrimental effect on the public of the new policy implemented by Choicepoint that masks portions of...
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Not only is new not better, but a recent reconfiguration of the Sacramento County Criminal Court index could make matters worse for the very people the change was intended to protect. This report comes from the April issue of The...
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The public is losing access to government documents that were formerly available under the FOIA. Low level federal employees are designating many of these records “Not For Public Dissemination” and there’s no record of which ones are being reclassified. Federal...
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From the AP wires via California First Amendment Coalition… The California Supreme Court on Tuesday temporarily blocked the release of summaries of personnel files of 117 priests accused of molestation. The move came just minutes before the documents were to...
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