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Nihad A. Hassan and Rami HijaziOpen Source Intelligence Methods and Toolshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3213-2_6

6. People Search Engines and Public Records

Nihad A. Hassan1  and Rami Hijazi2
(1)
New York, USA
(2)
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
 

In today’s digital age, most people have some kind of online presence, either directly or indirectly. Other entities—such as government and local authorities—also store some type of information about their citizens in publicly accessible databases. Searching for someone is not always as easy as typing their name into Google or Facebook; people with a small online presence will not appear easily when searching for them online. In the previous chapter, we demonstrated the importance ...

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