Both pro and amateur Investigation in the United States has taken a recent turn to the online environment. This includes a useful Find a person email tool for locating lost friends, old school classmates and missing family members, using the information search power of The Internet.

These rapid changes in people searching methods started to happen from 1995 to 1996 with the appearance of the two hi tech investigative tools: Web Detective and Net Detective. Later, these two basic, online information gathering services found dozens of rank imitators trying to ride the wave of online information provision.

Some clear uses of the latest hi tech online people search tools include pre employment background screening, potential tenant background checking, legal office information and fact gathering, registered U.S. private investigation and law enforcement info seeking purposes.

It is a real tribute to the North American society, that high degrees of openness and transparency can truly survive in the USA, as indeed The Constitution of The United States of America had always intended. Now, enter the Information Age deluge of The Internet and the database search tools seem to appear like magic for people to access vast storehouses of social information.

New tools and systems like NetDetective will prove useful to both U.S. amateur investigators and true professionals alike, because of both the convenience and the scope of databases that are now searchable online. In the preferred online systems there is a large degree of cross-database integration and collaboration. This becomes essential when you seek an address history from a reverse cell phone lookup, for instance.

State and Federal Government departments such as DMV, the Social Security Administration and Court houses (DOJ) have very cautiously released some databases such as Court and criminal records. Obviously, the caution is based on reasonable fears of contravening the opposing privacy legislation which looks at first glance to be in conflict with the Freedom Of Information Act. However, each piece of law has its own specific areas of application. The new breed of online tools are legal.

Geoff Dodd
Investigative Editor-in-Chief

Announcement comes that a little known blog jam packed with investigative tool sets and systems has been around on Blogger for quite some years. You can see this curious resource stockpile at Net Detective

The owner was keeping a very low profile, it seems, to build up his inventory and tools for later release. A good policy when you are in such a competitive field as ‘Investigation Tool-set Net Detective Ideas!’ is in as you need an edge in terms of range and quality of systems offered to an ever more skeptical prospective audience of amateur and pro investigators.

What has gone wrong, to put it simply? Well the problem is that too many fast operators had built quick and nasty solutions for public records lookup that skimped and that sometimes consisted of a mere ‘collection of web links’ or browser bookmarks. One such example was Web Detective. These sites had no true sizeable databases of their own.

And the best solution? The solid long term answer is to arrange with the owners of social records databases for integrated searching facilities.
This solution is technically demanding as it integrates data from many sources such as telephone company directories, reverse lookup, Social Security SSN data, births and deaths, history of addresses, and more local marriages, divorce and adoption files, as well as court records from U.S. states and counties.

Surprisingly, this has been achieved and ‘Investigation Tool-set Net Detective Ideas!’ is worth your time for a visit to read and learn more about exactly what can be achieved with integrated database searching.

This type of service is suitable for amateur online investigators as well as professional law enforcement agents and private investigators, as it can dig deep into the precise public information under FOIA that is needed at a critical time.

Families in particular at times of crisis may need to reunite and that is one reason why personal information can be very important to them as is the address history facility at NetDetective people search using the ReverseMobile tool. These systems do not breach privacy laws because all information is sourced from public records under federal Freedom Of Information.

Geoff Dodd
Investigative Editor
Investigation Tool-set Net Detective Ideas!
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Britains vision of a national identity card for all of Her majesty’s subjects that will carry biometric information could play into the hands of organised crime the UK Government were warned today.

Ross Anderson, a professor of security engineering at Cambridge University explained that unlike a chip and pin card, if your identity has been compromised via a biometric card or data base you cannot simply replace the information.

Good point, and neither can you go and get a new set of finger prints or a new pair of eyes to set up a new account down at the biometric office!

The biometric card has been in the planning for some time as is due to roll out next year on a voluntary basis before the next Government decides if they are to be compulsary.

When the biometric identity card was first mooted by then Prime Minister Tony Blair, the British people were told it was the first step towards a cash free society but as Ross Anderson has pointed out to a Commons Home Affairs committee:

“Once you start using biometrics on a very wide scale, for all sorts of everyday transactions, organised crime will also have your biometrics.”

‘You do not know which shops are owned by the Mafia but if you end up having to put your fingerprint on the glass every time that you buy a can of Coke, sooner or later the Mafia will have the biometrics of millions of people.”

David Cameron the leader of the opposition has already stated he will scrap the biometric identity card should he become the next Prime Mnister.

Meanwhile a Home Office spokeswoman has tried to calm any growing worries by saying:

‘Biometric information will be encrypted from the moment a person is enrolled right through to the National Identity Register.”

Well that should keep the UK public sleeping better at night then!

Source: Mail On Sunday (UK newspaper with strong ties to the oppostition party)