Due to better technology and cheaper digital storeage space, genealogy search sites are putting more public records online than ever before. From a recent article published on Naples News dot com — Old family history records, from census information to draft cards, are now flooding the Internet thanks to new technology that makes it easier […]
Spying Digital Camera Eyes Are All Around
USA Today has published an interesting article on the reality of pervasive digital cameras in our modern lives, including the privacy problems they are creating. From the article — Traffic cameras zoom in enough to capture your dangling cigarette. Crime cameras “see” in the dark. Satellite images show whether your car is in the driveway. […]
National Sex Offender Public Registry
The US Department of Justice has gathered all of the sex offender public records for all 50 states and put it in one centralized search. The National Sex Offender Public Registry web site allows users to lookup sex offender public records by state search; name search; zip code search; county search; city & town search […]
Identity Theft For Businesses
As this article from marketwatch.com shows, identity theft isn’t just for individuals anymore; businesses too can be the victim of identity theft and fraud. From the article — If you have your own business and you think it’s a victim of identity theft, good luck. Many consumer protections, available to credit-card identity-theft victims, don’t apply […]
Employers Googling Job Candidates
A recent article by Robert Paul Reyes from Men’s News Daily warns about the potential for employers and recruiters to Google you, as well as check your online profiles and blogs on social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook. From the article — It’s not just busybodies who are “researching” people using the Internet, recruiters […]