Navarro has been quoted in news and blogs, where he questioned the abusive interrogation tactics used on some detainees at Guantanamo Bay.Joe Navarro, a former FBI (news - web sites) interrogator who has taught questioning methods and is familiar with Guantanamo, said treating prisoners poorly makes them more stubborn and unwilling to talk.
"The military has been cavalier in their attitudes toward these individuals to the point that it has been detrimental to the overall mission," Navarro told AP.
"Based on forensic examination of Lembo's computers, it was determined that he had employed upper-level bank employees to access and identify individual accounts in their respective banks," the police statement said. "That information was then sold to his clients, which included more than 40 law firms and collection agencies."Debt collection agencies and, attorneys executing judgments and litigating cases in which a parties' finances are relevant, should be able to independently verify an account holder's assets. But right now that is illegal. The court may award your client a Judgment but the federal government has taken away some of your authority to collect on the debt.
Lomia said the law firms that allegedly sought Lembo's services are part of "phase two" of the investigation.
There are a few well informed posts on this topic at Schneier on Security.
I'm not sure of the basis for her conclusions.
Ostergren sees the solution in more simple terms: Keep public records public, but don't put them online.
"If you want to go snooping in my records, you drive to the courthouse," Ostergren said. Most identity thieves, she reasons, will neither take the time nor want to be seen."
Her approach is a typical grassroots, with a dose of alarmism.
Her formula is simple: Target a county, locate personal data on hundreds of residents, send them letters telling them how much of their personal information is or might be exposed online, and urge them to pressure their local officials.
* Data brokers should conduct thorough credentialing of new accounts and those where a review indicates that a new check is in order.
* Congress should ban Internet sales of personal identification information to the general public.
* Penalties, such as fines and jail sentences, for the misuse of personal information should be increased.
* Data providers should be required by federal law to notify consumers when their information has been accessed illegally.
* Congress should prohibit the use of Social Security Numbers on identification documents such as healthcare insurance cards, drivers' licenses and state permits.
* Investigators and other licensed professionals who can demonstrate a need for information and have submitted to a background investigation should have
continued access to personal data.
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The Future of Information Gathering: Blogs, Search Technology and the Hidden InternetYou guessed it! June 22, Carole Levitt is rewarding CALI conference participants with a jam packed, practical seminar on using the Internet to do your case research.
Carole Levitt is a nationally recognized author and speaker on Internet research. She has over twenty years of extensive experience in the legal field as a Law Librarian, Legal Research and Writing Professor, California Attorney and Internet Trainer. She is a skilled online searcher, focusing on legal, public record, investigative and business research.
Sec. 560.002. DISCLOSURE OF BIOMETRIC IDENTIFIER. A governmental body that possesses a biometric identifier of an individual: (1) may not sell, lease, or otherwise disclose the biometric identifier to another person unless: (A) the individual consents to the disclosure;
(B) the disclosure is required or permitted by a federal statute or by a state statute other than Chapter 552; or (C) the disclosure is made by or to a law enforcement agency for a law enforcement purpose; [and]
(2) shall store, transmit, and protect from disclosure the biometric identifier using reasonable care and in a manner that is the same as or more protective than the manner in which the governmental body stores, transmits, and protects its other confidential information; and (3) may not store a biometric identifier in a database.
public recordsResident-only records law ruled unconstitutional
Delaware's rule that only state residents are entitled to use its freedom of
information law violates the U.S. Constitution, a federal court ruled last
week.
UPDATE: The Delaware Attorney General is poised to appeal this decision, according to this news report. The AG's site is mum on the whole matter.
House Bill 525 will require all Ohio felons to submit their DNA for inclusion in a national crime-fighting database that searches for biological matches between known offenders and evidence from unsolved crimes. Read the AG's press release.
With almost 35,000 registered sex offenders and predators, the FDLE database is one of the largest of its kind in the nation. Over the past 10 years, FDLE has provided a website giving Floridians the ability to search for sex offenders by zip code, county, city or name. As of today, the updated site now includes a user-friendly NeighborhoodTrac search system developed by Pitney Bowes to give parents and others a more targeted search area ranging up to five miles. Pitney Bowes Chairman and CEO Michael Critelli joined Crist and Tunnell at an event unveiling the new system. Read the press release.
"We, of course, immediately apologized," Dores said, and the company fired off a letter this week to those whose personal records were shared. The company also offered those affected a year's worth of credit monitoring at no cost, and bought a $50,000 identity theft insurance policy for each of the 8,998 people."And we set up a hotline they can call if anything suspicious turns up," she said. Read the article and another one here
First, a law could deem certain categories of information off limits. Medical data is already protected, to some extent. Social security numbers should be better protected (for example, from Internet publication).
Second, a law could prevent certain federal, state, and local government data from being accessible online. (Bankruptcy and divorce records come to mind; they could be redacted).
It would allow you to have personal information redacted or removed from public documents and would require county clerks to remove personal information from documents turned over to the public and remove public documents from online access.Yah, and health care, quality education and safe neighborhoods cost money too. But it's not really about the cost, it's about the money. Oil, that is. Political oil. Votes. The current tally is in favor of secrecy in the name of protection from identify theft. But once the transparency of government is clouded, there's no getting it back. And what will be redacted from these documents? Birth dates on birth certificates? Names on deeds?
The problem is that sanitizing all county records and putting them back online, would be too expensive. In Fort Bend County alone, there are some 20 million such records, going back to 1838.
Under the new law, the most violent sex offenders are to be listed in the online database for life. For lesser offenses, depending on the severity, an offender would have to wait from 10 to 40 years for removal from the list. Read the articleIf everyone can pinpoint the local sex offender registrants, raise a fuss and push them out of a residence in their neighborhood, where do they go? At least if the offender is at a known location the police might be able to better track them, rather than risk loosing contact because of homelessness. In California alone, law enforcement has no current address information for 44 percent of the registered offenders. Read more
Congress returned this week to a burgeoning issue likely to concern the financial health of millions of Americans: What can be done about skyrocketing incidents of identity theft and data loss?This is no surprise to private investigators who are charged with holding their clients' confidences but ChoicePoint finds it convenient to deflect responsibility for its own poor data security by scapegoating those with whom they do business.
According to the Gartner Group, 70 percent of security incidents that occur are inside jobs, making the insider threat arguably the most critical one facing enterprises.
'The records are public, they're just not accessible'
Collection orders that the Child Support Enforcement Agency files publicly at the Hawai'i Bureau of Conveyances against parents who aren't paying child support are confidential records that the CSEA won't disclose to the public, according to the attorney general's office. Read the article
In a ruling that gives additional privacy protection to drivers in Utah, the state Court of Appeals yesterday ruled that companies may no longer obtain the entire driver history database from Utah's department of motor vehicles. Instead, any company that wishes to check the record of a customer may only request information on that specific, individual customer. Read the opinion
LOCAL INFORMATION DATABASE COMPANY INFOUSA will license its U.S. business database to Google for use in its local search product, still undergoing beta testing, InfoUSA announced this week. The additional listings likely will add significant comprehensiveness and depth to Google's local offering, said Greg Sterling, an analyst for the Kelsey Group. Short article
Attorneys: FTC insistence on meeting act's privacy provisions may be hurting clients rather than bolstering their rights
In the weeks after they announced major security breaches, data brokers like ChoicePoint and Lexis-Nexis have imposed restrictions on access to Americans' personal information. Some of their clients are no longer allowed access to social security and drivers license numbers. NPR's Larry Abramson reports on the affects this has had on private investigators, who have come to rely on personal data to solve cases. Listen to the story
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