Pennsylvania has just made it easier for people with nonviolent misdemeanor criminal offenses to have their criminal records sealed from public view. Last week, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolfe signed a bill into law that allows people to have their criminal records sealed by a court as long as the offense is no worse than a […]
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People depend more and more on global positioning systems for many useful location-based services that they use every day. However, current GPS services are only accurate to within about 10 meters, which can often mean the difference between finding or not finding the person, place or thing that your are looking for. The accuracy of […]
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Government agencies and public institutions are learning the hard way that stonewalling on Freedom of Information Act requests for public records can lead to expensive lawsuits and tarnished reputations. ESPN has filed a $90,000 legal motion against Michigan State University to recover legal expenses and fees that the network racked up during a public records […]
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Thanks to all of the people searches and public records available online now, it is never too late to find and reunite with a friend or family member that you have lost contact with. An 82-year-old woman has finally been reunited with her 96-year-old birth mother after a lengthy search that lasted 50 years. Betty […]
According to The Financial Times, criminal hackers are using personal information found on social networks and investment websites to target wealthy people in financial scams to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars per year. One computer security organization says that they have seen a measurable increase in the number of hacker attacks aimed […]
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