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BITFU Blog presents interesting findings from our own investigations, research, and web sleuthing, while also teaching you how to be your own digital detective. So whatever position you hold, whatever information you need, you'll be able to BITFU. (Um, what's BITFU?) Our writers are current and former investigators, journalists, researchers, information brokers, and lawyers. Earn your Kung Fu Detective blackbelt (like that guy to the right) by subscribing to email updates, RSS, and following us on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+.
Did you or a loved one get slapped around by the cops? Want to check up on your city’s finest? Or just want to make your own “Stupidest Stuff People Say While Getting Arrested” series? Then you need police videos. BITFU tells you how to get them with a public records request.
The Freedom of Information Act can be used to obtain privacy-related public records from federal agencies — even when agencies fail to comply until hit with a lawsuit.
From time to time, BITFU will post a Google search tip. Today we discuss the “filetype” search.
This post is the 3rd installment of a privacy case study. In this privacy case study, BITFU Gone Bad is a private detective out to track you down and snag your assets, based on a dubious legal claim for which you are liable.
The New York Times recently wrote an extremely favorable review of Factual.com. Since BITFU is interested in useful, fact-oriented sites, I was really looking forward to checking out Factual.com. After looking over Factual.com (many times), my review can simply be summed up as… “Huh?”
This post is the beginning of a privacy case study, as referenced at the end of a prior BITFU post. In this case study, you and a partner own a small business. Your partner, it turns out, is a crook who stole money from someone.
Today BITFU is going to direct you to an outline of some basic steps everyone should take to protect privacy. Before continuing on to these basic steps to protect privacy, I need to address an important point: Privacy is an illusion.
We believe that privacy matters. If you feel the same way and are concerned about invasion of privacy issues, the first — and most important — step is to get familiar with the fundamental concept of Identifiers. It doesn’t matter if your particular interest deals with an overactive government, lawyers, criminals.
Calling Out Tea Party Tribune and The Democratic Underground, among others, for their coverage of Senate Bill 1813. As BITFU stated in our earlier post on Senate Bill 1813, there is a lot of controversy surrounding the pending bill in Congress.
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