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Top Ten Security/Investigation Predictions for 2012. Part I of II.

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Lina Maini

 Hoping to give our readers an edge on awareness and combatting security and investigation concerns in 2012, below are our top five predictions in the area of information and data security management. (Next week, in II of this two-part series, we will cover the remaining five predictions, focused on evolving investigation concepts.) 1. Social networking redefining “privacy”. [...]

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Is Data Inspection Unconstitutional?

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Lina Maini

(Reprint of a Feb, 2011 article to which we had expected answers to the FOIL request we’d submitted to the TSA.   To date, we have not received a response so this article is being reposted to increase privacy awareness for travelers.) Well, this is a new one on me but my cell phone was recently confiscated [...]

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Successful Locates v. Diminished Settlements

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Lina Maini

To conduct a successful locate, hire a good investigator. As flippant and self-serving as that may appear, if you’ve tried the usual public search options and have come up negative, if might be time to hire a professional detective.   The information online appears to be uniform.  It’s not.  A good investigator will use multiple data sources to locate [...]

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Out With The Old (Profitably) and In With the New (Free)

Posted on January 11, 2010 by Lina Maini

This post’s topic was intentionally delayed.   1. We thought it reasonable to wait out the food-laden, financially draining, emotion coin flipping, holiday season.  (This Bulletin also serves as notice that the holiday season is, in fact,  over.) 2. Suggestions during the holidays, however well-intentioned, are just unfair.   3. Well, it wasn’t so much for the second reason as [...]

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Reminder: Secure Your Metadata

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Lina Maini

From Wikipedia: Metadata (meta data, or sometimes metainformation) is “data about other data”, of any sort in any media. An item of metadata may describe an individual datum, or content item, or a collection of data including multiple content items and hierarchical levels, for example a database schema. In data processing, metadata is definitional data [...]

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