Will Google Respect Your Right to Be Forgotten?

Will Google Respect Your Right to Be Forgotten?

Try as we might, we cannot always control the content about us that gets uploaded to the internet. From our own mistakes to blackmail to a poor judgment call by a friend or relative, content exposing us made public on the internet extends beyond the right to privacy....
Seniors! Protect Yourself Against Con Artists

Seniors! Protect Yourself Against Con Artists

Senior citizens are the most common prey for scammers and con artists. Email scams, phone scams, and scams that play on seniors being unfamiliar with new technology that gets introduced into our daily lives rely on seniors not being able to protect themselves and use...
Drone Scams for Fear and Profit

Drone Scams for Fear and Profit

When technology proliferates faster than consumer understanding, the gap of uncertainty opens the door for con artists. This is what is happening in the world of drones. As drones for personal use become more and more common, misunderstandings of what is real tech and...
Google Investigations Tank Cases

Google Investigations Tank Cases

The investigative industry has evolved since I started 30 years ago. I often wonder if the private investigative field is a dying profession. Now that law firms have assistants with Internet access, too many attorneys think that an hour or two in front of a computer...
Taxpayer Beware: “IRS” Tax Scams Up 400% in 2016

Taxpayer Beware: “IRS” Tax Scams Up 400% in 2016

There’s no time of year when the average citizen is pulled deeper into the mire of bureaucracy than tax season. We’re surrounded by piles and piles of our own most personal information, from bank account numbers to social security numbers, to our recent...
Fledgling Skype Romance or Love Scam?

Fledgling Skype Romance or Love Scam?

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, dating scams are on the rise. Since the advent of chat rooms, instant messenger, and social media, people have been falling in love in cyberspace. While meeting people over the internet is nothing new, neither are the risks that...