Locating Student Records Online

Student records from colleges and universities can be a great source of personal background information on current and former students, provided you can obtain them. Student records can include various things, like class transcripts and grades; written evaluations; financial aid records; loan collection records and disciplinary records. Most colleges and universities have their own procedures […]

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Riya, Digital Cameras and GPS Cell Phones – Your Mobile “Big Brother”

Think about this one. Here is a people search idea that is both possible and probable. Add up the following existing and possible technologies and see what you get. 1. GPS cell phones that can pinpoint a person’s exact location. ( exists ) 2. Mobile digital cameras on cell phones that can be used to […]

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Riya Facial Recognition and Privacy Concerns

A Dec. 7th article on wired.com by Jennifer Granick discusses some issues that we have discussed in previous posts on this blog, regarding the new Riya facial recognition software; photo tagging and search engines potentially indexing personal online pictures and making them searchable by a person’s name. From the Wired article – The service currently […]

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Become a Google Power User With “Google Power”

We all know Google is a great people search; business search and other background and investigative search engine, but the real power in using Google is with all of the tricks that you can use to really zero in on what you are looking for online. Google Power by Chris Sherman is one of the […]

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