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Naked in Cyberspace: How to Find Personal Information Online

Naked in Cyberspace: How to Find Personal Information Online
By Carole A. Lane

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Surveying the types of personal records that are available on the Internet and through online services, this encyclopedic book explains how researchers find and use personal data, identifies the most useful sources of information about people, and offers advice for those with privacy concerns. Researchers will learn how to use online tools and databases to gain competitive intelligence, locate and investigate people, access public records, identify experts, find new customers, recruit employees, search for assets, uncover criminal records, and conduct genealogical research. Added to this updated edition is a more comprehensive listing of all vendors of public records.

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #1611225 in Books
  • Published on: 2002-06-01
  • Original language: English
  • Dimensions: 1.26" h x 6.96" w x 9.44" l, 2.17 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 586 pages

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From Amazon.com
What can you find out online about others? What can anyone find out about you? Quite a lot. Carole Lane shows you both how and why in this encyclopedic book. Naked in Cyberspace reveals the personal records available on the Net and demonstrates both how they are used and how to use them. Lane further examines the issue of Net privacy, noting what information is not available to the average searcher and discussing what safeguards protect you from unwarranted intrusion. This is an important work for anyone who values both privacy and information.

From Booklist
Everyone needs information about someone else from time to time. Probate attorneys need to contact heirs, collection agents need to find debtors, genealogists need to trace ancestors, and librarians often need to locate biographies for their patrons. Lane, who founded her own information brokerage in 1993, explains the mysteries of mailing lists, telephone directories, and news databases, as well as bank records, consumer credit records, criminal justice databases, vehicle registrations, death and tax records, and a host of other sources containing public information. The word online in the subtitle is slightly misleading, since many of Lane's database sources are CD-ROM-format subscriptions. Lane is well versed in privacy laws and warns that computerized personal data is getting easier to collect and harder to conceal (on accessibility see David Freedman and Charles Mann's At Large ). Since Web sites change frequently, Lane provides an updated list to the URLs mentioned in the book at http: //www.onlineinc.com/pempress/naked/. George Eberhart

Ingram
Now that most personal records are easily searchable online, we're all naked in cyberspace. Readers can use this book to perform asset searches, find genealogical information, screen potential partners, identify prospective customers and investors, recruit employees, search adoption registries, conduct prospect/fundraising research and locate people.