In July, we reported on the sale of Intelius, a leading people search and background check company, to private equity firm H.I.G Capital. This month it was announced that Intelius has bought Classmates for a reported $30 million. For people who don’t know, Classmates.com was the original classmate reunion site before there was Facebook. Intelius […]
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Social networks like LinkedIn are always coming up with new ways to help people search for, find and connect with one another. LinkedIn’s new people search app called “Lookup” is a quick employee directory that lets you find your fellow coworkers and do background research on them. The LinkedIn Lookup app could make your company’s […]
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The facial recognition technology that is used by surveillance cameras, smartphones and social media sites can be fooled by a simple pair of plastic glasses that use a semi-transparent visor to distort people’s facial features. Researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Informatics have invented a “Privacy Visor” that can foil facial recognition devices and software […]
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Facebook is a notorious stickler when it comes to people using their real names when they register profiles on the popular social media site. The world’s largest social network recently ran afoul of European regulators for requiring users to register their real names on the site. Now, a couple in Prescott, Arizona is finding out […]
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Spokeo, a popular people search engine, has named their “Search Angel” award winners for 2015. Spokeo’s annual Search Angel awards recognize volunteer searchers who help adoptees find and reunite with their birth families. Search Angels are people who selflessly volunteer to help adoptees search for their birth parents and families. Search Angels are well known […]