This informative article in the Sydney Morning Herald discusses in depth  how  everyday citizens are using web searches from Google to Mamma to do background checks and ’spy’ on one another. 

Instead of George Orwell’s ‘Big Brother’, we now have a multitude of wired ‘Little Brothers’… but who are we to complain, modern search technologies have been a great leap forward for people searches, skip tracing and public record searching.

You can read the entire text of this interesting article by David Stonehouse on smh.com.au @ Spy Versus Spy .