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California Senate Considers Bill Limiting Sale of License Plate Data
01/14/2014 - 12:34The California Senate is currently considering a bill to limit the sale or sharing of the information gathered by license plate readers to law enforcement only. We have previously written about the availability of this license plate recognition data (LPR; also known as license plate reader data) from the investigative research database TLO.com. Currently, TLO is the only investigative research...
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Finding Government Documents on the Internet
01/13/2014 - 19:01USA.gov (formerly FirstGov.gov) USA.gov (http://www.usa.gov) is the federal government’s document search portal. USA.gov searches millions of Web pages from all levels of the United States government: federal, state, local, tribal, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories. (Although results occasionally bring back court opinions, this is not the right site to search for them....
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Congress.gov: How to Search for Federal Bills, Laws, the Congressional Record, and Committee Reports
01/13/2014 - 12:55NOTE: California Attorneys and Paralegals can earn one hour of self-study MCLE credits online after reading this article and completing this associated MCLE quiz. This article is about Congress.gov (http://beta.congress.gov/), which is the government’s most recent searchable database of federal legislative/congressional materials (other than the U.S. Code). Congress.gov includes public...
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Paper Company Offers Wireless Printing App for Mobile Devices Free for a Limited Time
01/08/2014 - 13:59International Paper, manufacturer of all manner of paper products including the Hammermill line of printer/copier paper, has introduced a mobile application at CES that allows Android and iOS device users to print from their devices directly to any wireless printer. The Print Hammermill app automatically detects wireless printers on the network to which the device is connected. No other app/...
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FORMER WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL JOHN W. DEAN TO PRESENT PLENARY SESSION AT ABA TECHSHOW, SATURDAY MARCH 29
01/02/2014 - 06:53Presentation: "Nixon's Watergate Abuses: The Hackings That Forever Changed Legal Ethics" to include Q & A John W. Dean, White House Counsel to President Nixon, will deliver a plenary presentation at ABA TECHSHOW on Saturday, March 29. His presentation, titled "Nixon's Watergate Abuses: The Hackings That Forever Changed Legal Ethics," will focus on the inception of...
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e-Book Puts Internet Investigative, Background, Legal Research at Your Fingertips | Popular Research Book “The Cybersleuth’s Guide to the Internet” Now Available For iPad, Kindle, Nook and Other Popular E-Readers
11/29/2013 - 12:40The popular Internet research manual “The Cybersleuth's Guide to the Internet” is now available as an e-book in the .epub and .mobi formats. The retail price of the ebook is $49.95 at the publisher’s Web site - http://linkon.in/1fAX8mU. Discounts are available to attendees of the authors live MCLE seminars (and other owners of print copies of the...
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Investigative Research Database TLO Acquired by TransUnion
11/26/2013 - 12:00TLO.com is an inexpensive investigative research database (similar to Accurint) that we have written about previously, and often discuss at our seminars and in our books. TLO filed a voluntary Chapter 11 petition on May 9, 2013. On Nov. 22, 2013, the credit reporting bureau TransUnion obtained Court approval to acquire TLO for $154 million. In a press release announcing the acquisition,...
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Bing Changes Web Search Interface | Completely Removes Advanced Search Option
11/25/2013 - 11:09Bing has long hidden its Advanced Search page, making it inaccessible until after you had run a search. Until this redesign, the link to the “Advanced Search" page was displayed after running a search and left clicking into the search box which contained your search terms. At that point, a drop-down menu appeared with additional suggested search terms. On the bottom right of that list...
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Google Changes Search Page Interface - Again
11/07/2013 - 08:54Google has redesigned its search interface yet again - and not for the better. A little over two years ago, in an effort to unify the design of all of its products, Google added a standardized black bar across the top of all of those products. In that black bar (in easily ignored grey text) were links to some of Google’s most popular products and specialized databases. The goal was to give...
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Fastcase Offers New Features and Services
09/09/2013 - 13:22On a recent visit to Fastcase, I noticed a number of new features and services available for users. Alerts The first was something new on the search results page—an Add Alert option. When you click the Add Alert button, you are saving your search and asking Fastcase to alert you by email whenever new documents are added to Fastcase that match your search terms. To cancel your...