Naked in Cyberspace v2

NAKED IN CYBERSPACE
How To Find Personal Information Online, Second edition
by Carole A. Lane
Edited by Owen B. Davies,
with a Foreword by Beth Givens, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse

613 PAGES * 7 x 9 1/4 * PAPER$29.95 * ISBN 0-910965-50-1

AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 2002

ANNOUNCING NAKED IN CYBERSPACE II! Named as "Most Insightful Book" of the year by Competia, the world's premier community for professionals in Competitive Intelligence and Strategic Planning.

The second edition of this award-winning "gold standard" on personal information is now in bookstores!

In this fully revised and updated second edition of her bestselling guide, author Carole A. Lane surveys the types of personal records that are available on the Internet and online services. Lane explains how researchers find and use personal data, identifies the most useful sources of information about people, and offers advice for readers with privacy concerns. You’ll 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, conduct genealogical research, and much more. Naked in Cyberspace is the ultimate handbook for anyone who needs information about people. A companion Web directory provides links to more than 1,000 important reader resources.

• The ultimate how-to guide for anyone who wants to use commercial and professional online services and the Internet, to locate personal information.
• A must-have for employers, marketers, lenders, journalists, biographers, private investigators, genealogists--anybody doing personal research today.
• The first and only comprehensive guide of its kind, this book takes a practical approach to an important and controversial Information Age topic.
• Written by Carole A. Lane --one of the world's leading experts on personal records research.

USE ONLINE TECHNOLOGY TO RESEARCH ANYBODY

Now that most personal records are searchable online, the bureaucratic red tape that used to protect our secrets from prying eyes has been stripped away. . .and we're all naked in cyberspace.

Without taking sides on the right or wrong of using online ingredients to compile a detailed dossier on anybody, this book is a veritable cookbook for electronic researchers.

LEARN HOW TO USE ONLINE & CD-ROM TECHNOLOGY TO:

• Gain competitive intelligence
• Locate people
• Recruit employees
• Investigate people
• Use adoption registries
• Conduct prospect research (fundraising)
• Perform asset searches
• Screen potential suitors, partners, tenants, etc.
• Find genealogical information
• Identify prospective customers and investors