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 […]
Remember this story the next time you think about filling out an online loan application and giving away your personal and financial information to the site’s operators. Earlier this week, the United States Federal Trade Commission announced charges against two data brokers for selling personal and financial information from payday loan applications to scam artists, […]
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The state of Florida announced that they have agreed to pay $700,000 to settle seven lawsuits that allege Governor Rick Scott and several of his top aides circumvented the state’s public records laws by using private email accounts to hide their communications. The entire settlement will be paid to Steven Andrews, a Tallahassee lawyer who […]
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Team Watters Sonar Search & Recovery is an Illinois-based non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to finding and retrieving the bodies of missing persons that are submerged underwater. Team Watters uses boats that are equipped with side image sonar technology to conduct searches for missing people in large bodies of water and uses remote-controlled drone boats with […]
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