Managing Information News is reporting that Experian is acquiring background check provider Backgroundchecking.com. From the article — Experian, the global information solutions company, has acquired Backgroundchecking.com, an organisation specialising in candidate background checking for job applicants and contractors. The acquisition will enhance Experian’s existing verification and fraud prevention offerings. It will enable clients to comply […]
The Smoking Gun is reporting on the clever use of Ebay auction monitoring by federal agents to raid an Ecstasy lab in New York City. Federal investigators this week raided a New York City home after spending months monitoring purchases on Ebay of laboratory equipment and chemicals used to manufacture the drug Ecstasy. You can […]
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Some politically-motivated users of the publicly-edited online encyclopedia WikiPedia are rewriting political biographies of politicians to make friends look good and foes look bad. According to a recent AP article — Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that can be altered by anyone with a computer, has proved remarkably useful for pulling political dirty tricks. Political operatives […]
Here is a recent article from NewsWeek that shows just how important Web 2.0 blogs and social networks are becoming to law enforcement and legal professionals when conducting investigations. Law enforcement officials are increasingly turning to social network sites like MySpace and FaceBook to help solve crimes and bring wrongdoers to justice. From the article […]
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Qwika is a search engine that indexes wikis and makes their articles searchable for internet users. Qwika’s goal is to eventually index every wiki that is available online. At the time of this posting, the Qwika search engine has indexed 1,158 wikis containing 21,964,380 searchable articles. This is a great search engine for journalists and […]