Thanks to movies and books, the word “private investigation” often brings thoughts of the investigator sneaking through bushes with small cameras and pointy microphones, clandestine meetings in dark alleyways and chameleon-like abilities. While movies can ape real life, much of private investigation begins with research – and with today’s technology, some of the research begins online.

Lately, I’ve seen a huge online scandal hitting the Internet highways and byways. Headlines scream about Facebook changing their privacy policy in a way that allows them to take all your supposedly private information and place it for public viewing, and these headlines aren’t all from small news networks and blogs: [click to continue…]

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