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 […]
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Here is an interesting article from Wired Magazine about people who manage to keep their online personal data trails short or non-existant and are able to avoid being found on Google searches. From the article – Geri Agalia doesn’t appear to leave less of a data trail than most Americans. She has a phone in […]
Ambient Findability is a forward-looking ( or, rather, forward-finding ) new book by Peter Morville that should be required reading for all skip tracers, private investigators and internet research professionals. The book discusses the theory and practice of how people find the information they are seeking in an era of information overload and how they […]
ZDNet is reporting on a new artificial intelligence program that can translate languages, speech-to-speech, using electrodes attached to a person’s face and throat. Researchers believe that the language translator could be implanted in a person’s mouth within the next decade for seamless, real-time speech translation. You can read the entire article posted by Roland Piquepaille […]
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The November / December 2005 issue of Professional Investigator Magazine is out now. Articles include: Coverage of the 2005 World Investigators Conference Insurance Fraud Unmanned Remote Surveillance Searching the Deep Web Getting Ready for Court and more. You can visit the site at Professional Investigator Magazine . […]
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