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Armada Global Unveils a Mobile Unmanned Surveillance Platform for Private Investigators

Armada Global Unveils a Mobile Unmanned Surveillance Platform for Private Investigators

| 0 Comments January 17, 2012

Armada Global, Inc., a Central Pennsylvania-based high-tech surveillance and security firm, has developed a tool that is changing the way companies conduct their investigations.  Owned and operated by former operations officers for CIA’s National Clandestine Service, Armada Global insisted on a more covert approach to their surveillance, breaking the mold of using the stereotypical dark [...]

Private Investigators Reducing their Carbon Footprint and “Going Green”

Private Investigators Reducing their Carbon Footprint and “Going Green”

| 0 Comments December 9, 2011

Helping the Environment It’s hard to go one day without hearing about “Going Green” or “Reducing our Carbon Footprint” to cut costs and assist the environment.  Also take into account that any industry that has strong associations with the Court systems, Lawyers and insurance companies as private investigators do, that the amount of reports, files [...]

[Video] Maltego – A Fascinating Open Source and Network Intelligence Tool

[Video] Maltego – A Fascinating Open Source and Network Intelligence Tool

| 0 Comments November 30, 2011

I’ve been playing with Maltego now for just a few weeks on some very complex business intelligence projects I have going on, and I have to tell you, I am STUNNED by how much information I develop every time I have the opportunity to run new data through it! In fact, I understand that several [...]

12 Essential Smartphone Apps Worth Investigating

12 Essential Smartphone Apps Worth Investigating

| 0 Comments October 7, 2011

Smartphones have indisputably change the face of human communication.  No longer are we bound by the confines of terrestrial wired audio communication. We can see exactly where we are on earth, send photos and videos to our friends and family, and most importantly we can check our Facebook messages. Smartphones have driven revolutions in Egypt [...]

5 Smart Phone Document Scanning Apps a Spy Could Learn to Love

5 Smart Phone Document Scanning Apps a Spy Could Learn to Love

| 3 Comments September 7, 2011

Everyone is familiar with the old spy-movie cliché: Compromising microfilm copies of top-secret documents have fallen into the wrong hands and our tortured anti-hero is forced to come out of retirement an once again immerse himself in the seedy underground world of espionage in order to recover it before it is sold to the enemy. [...]

Leading Online Information Provider Now Offering 25-Cent Search Solutions

Leading Online Information Provider Now Offering 25-Cent Search Solutions

| 6 Comments September 7, 2011

September 1, 2011 — Spring Hill, Fla. — Tracers Information Specialists, Inc. (www.tracersinfo.com) announced today that it has lowered the prices of many of its most popular and flexible search tools to twenty-five cents per search. Products available for a quarter include Tracers’ Premium People searches, a collection of tools typically used to discover a [...]

A Private Investigator’s Take on Social Media

A Private Investigator’s Take on Social Media

| 2 Comments November 21, 2010

I have been a personal user of Facebook for several years now.   I confess, however, that until recently I have used a nom de guerre. I apologize to Facebook for violating its policy, but you see I had my reasons. During this anonymous phase of my Facebook existence, a colleague occasionally would ask when I [...]

The Electronic Peephole: Digital Evidence in Family Law Investigations

The Electronic Peephole: Digital Evidence in Family Law Investigations

| 0 Comments June 18, 2010

Editor’s note: This article was originally written for attorneys concerning questions that often arise out of family law disputes but as private investigators are often called on to investigate matters involving divorce, infidelity and child custody matters we are often asked about the application of technology to develop evidence and information. The topics discussed in [...]