Spokeo and other low-cost or free information sites on the web spew out a lot of garbage, and that can do a lot of harm.
This blog takes no position on whether a private right of action exists under the Fair Credit Reporting Act even when no concrete harm can be demonstrated from bad information
Ban the Box isn’t going away, and companies need a strategy to protect themselves.
The movement in the U.S. to restrict the kind of information employers can look for in making a hiring decision gathers momentum, this time in New York City. It’s known as Ban the Box because the list of boxes applicants need
These are still early days for the scandal engulfing world soccer, but in the indictments and other stories emerging we see three distinct features crucial for most successful investigations.
We have written about all of them, but rarely are they captured so well in one single story so famously told as the one about FIFA
News this morning of a Federal Trade Commission civil fraud case against four “cancer” charities in Tennessee is a good time to highlight a wonderful investigative tool out there that we have been using for years.
Based on the fact that they get tax exemptions, charities have to make their tax returns public. Tax
How independent should an independent investigator be? The cover story in this month’s American Bar Association Journal called “The Probers” takes a look at some of the highest profile independent investigations of recent years carried out not by private investigators, but by attorneys
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These are the mega-cases involving among others Penn State, the
We recently came across this news article about the business of selling citizenship and passports in the Caribbean, particularly in St. Kitts and Nevis. Increasingly, in several island states, people are able to buy pas
sports simply by investing large amounts of money in those islands. Most of these passports don’t reflect the holder’s place
The big heavy breathing lead story in the Sunday New York Times this week was about the increasing number of government agencies using undercover operations to detect law breakers of all kinds. The Small Business Administration, the IRS, even the U.S. Supreme Court Police have agents hiding badges, blending into crowds and perhaps
While clients who ought to know better frequently ask us to get banking and cell phone records, a request for a medical record is far more rare.
All three are illegal for us to obtain without a court order by federal statute in nearly any circumstance, as we’ve written about many times on the privacy
According to several news reports, Walter Reinhardt of North Carolina, pled guilty to 40 charges of securities fraud, common law forgery and common law uttering in North Carolina yesterday. From 2005 to 2009, Reinhardt solicited fraudulent investments for businesses he claimed were owned by someone in Richmond, Virginia. He targeted teachers and sweet talked
Not one, but two stories of criminals foiled by their own selfies have made the headlines this past week. Tanya Peele, a 26-year-old Atlanta woman, is accused of setting up a fake business account at JP Morgan, then using that account to steal over $100,000. When Peele went to withdraw the allegedly stolen cash