The privacy advocates are displeased with the reformatted people search engine, ZoomInfo, which culls Internet pages by individual names that are associated with a company, bringing them together in one document. The document includes posted resumes and periodical articles. If...
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Emergent Chaos is tracking articles and blog postings on ChoicePoint. There’s been quite a roil between the various advocates for closure and the few of us in opposition. Probably, the only value of all this attention is getting a mention...
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The Citizen Access Project run by the folks at the University of Florida, College of Journalism, provides a listing by state of the various statutes on public record access, allowable fees and the policy on destruction of...
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Michael Thomas of Caveat Research, a Washington, D.C. investigative firm, stumbled upon PI News Link through a posting at LegalDocketsOnline about my Public Thoughts on Privacy entry. I wish him well, no caveats...
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Not all online databases of licensed medical doctors are equal. Public Citizen surveyed the individual state sites and compared them for extent of content and usability. Only 7 states met all their criteria. This chart compares how the states measured...
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A rare piece in any form of media these days, Has Security Become an Excuse for Govn’t Secrecy?, written by Tom Regan in the CS Monitor, gives a smattering of positive reports on the proposed Open Government...
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We know the challenges and rewards of criminal defense investigations but the rest of the world doesn’t see our perspective much. Sanchovilla is blogging about it over at Tales of a Public Defender Investigator. Here he’s relating the influence of...
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The Congress and the data aggregators are moving quickly to address the issue of the “sale” of social security numbers. I’m using this space to update you and present some solutions to the vexing tension between computer reliant identity theft...
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The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP) cites an article in the Orlando Sentinel that points out how secrecy in government records makes us more vulnerable, not less. [Thanks to Gregg Leslie, RCFP now has an RSS...
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This came across my desk by way of ResourceShelf. The Federal Trade Commission presented prepared remarks on March 10 to the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. The FTC Chairman (as she identified herself), Deborah Platt Majoras...
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