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Privacy concerns and laws related to private skip tracing
Yes — DuckDuckGo can be legally compelled to disclose user data to authorities, but the scope of what it can actually hand over is constrained by the company’s operational practices: the company repea...
A search for " martadjaja" surfaces multiple companies and entities named Selfin across jurisdictions—ranging from a -registered to n financial firms and / startups—but none of the provided reporting ...
ICE’s internal personnel vetting for prospective employees follows a formal background-investigation and adjudication process after a tentative offer is accepted, while its public-facing worksite veri...
Double Counter does collect and store users’ IP addresses and device/browser fingerprint data to detect alternate accounts and block VPNs, retaining that data for up to 24 months and encrypting it dur...
The Online Detainee Locator System (ODLS) is a publicly accessible database that lets users search for people currently in ICE or certain custody using either an Alien Registration Number and date of ...
historically presented itself as a messaging service that does not retain users’ chat content and only preserves limited account metadata for short windows — a posture that reduced exposure of stored ...
Platforms publicly promise short retention for certain Grok/Grok-on‑X artifacts — for example, xAI says Private Chat data is deleted from its systems within 30 days — but multiple technical and legal ...
Ad conversion pixels such as bat.bing.com are small JavaScript tags (commonly called UET for Microsoft Ads) that load a vendor script on every page, create a client-side event queue, and push page vie...
Private contractor "" and bounty‑hunter style programs operate in a legal gray area that overlaps with but is distinct from police work: they bring speed, private databases, and commercial incentives,...
make clear that may use consumers’ conversations to improve its models by default, but provides an opt-out mechanism so that once a user opts out, new conversations will not be used for training; busi...
and stated practices place it under and GDPR protections rather than direct , and the company advertises technical measures (no IP logging, proxy/Anonymous View) designed to reduce . However, partial ...
’s software—primarily Gotham and Foundry—has been adopted by local police and regional fusion centers to integrate disparate sets, map relationships, and support investigations, with reported uses ran...
This site is a class of online "" tools that collect public technical, registration, and historical data about a —things like hosting provider, IP address, registration, and the technologies a site us...
refers to the distribution and access ecosystem maintains to provide software, documentation, data files and other downloadable materials that support its long‑read sequencing products and services, a...
delivers a technically strong VPN stack—modern protocols, high server counts, and persistent positive test results—backed by repeated third‑party audits and transparency reporting that support its no‑...
oferece criptografia de nível industrial (AES-256/ChaCha20) e protocolos modernos como WireGuard, Open e IKEv2, e passa por auditorias independentes regulares — fatores que o posicionam como uma opção...
is used without logging in, and independent explainers report that the service still collects technical and session metadata — most consistently: IP address, device and browser details, timestamps and...
State DMVs are required by federal to capture and keep images of source documents used to prove identity and lawful status, but the federal regulations do not prescribe a single national retention per...
’s use of listening data to power personalized algorithms has sparked controversies across three broad areas: listener experience and cultural diversity, artist economics and creative incentives, and ...
Civil‑liberties groups have mounted immediate legal and administrative pushback against DHS’s expanded biometric entry‑exit rule, filing litigation and organizing class actions while lodging formal pu...