If Net Detective is being used by eight hundred thousand American citizens, as the company claims, then are these users all amateur investigators working from home or office computers? I strongly doubt it. Considering the value of social name, address, and telephone information, a lot of these users must be seasoned professional investigators. Doing both US government department work and private detective assignments.

After all is said and done, US Law Enforcement officers were the first to search public records and to do Reverse Cellphone Look Up. Naturally they are the only ones with legal non-bank access to credit card usage records, when engaged in an ongoing investigation. So daily, they need computer tools that are web based, quick to use and efficient, such as Net Detective Plus version. That’s the monthly subscription tool version.

People search tasks are now well catered for by a modern, latest technology Reverse Cellphone Look up and that is because the integrated searching interface can return the web searcher a complete background check report which now even includes an address history. Such is computer technology nowadays that a complete history of addresses may be obtained using the Canadian organized ReverseMobile.com service which seeks data from hundreds, even thousands of sources, including proprietary databases across North America.

There are many options available to US federal, state and county Law Enforcement agents as they seek social data and strong evidence that can stand up in court. Corroboration, consistency and confirmation are all highly important factors that police investigators need to satisfy, so they use Internet access to public government records such as those provided by the U.S. Social Security Administration, the Department of Motor vehicles, The Dept of Justice, County Courts and such like departmental information sources. Since 1995 when Web Detective first appeared, these public record resources have been easily accessed by anyone with a computer and an Internet connection. Legally, the Freedom Of Information Act has supported this pro and amateur investigative activity in the United States. It is interesting to note here that few if any other countries have followed the US lead, preferring to focus on Privacy legislation which opposes such total public transparency of information on individuals.

Now that so many allstate US public records and business info databases are searchable through the Internet, anybody at home with online access and a bit of Internet searching skill can do the same sort of fact-finding work for their families and themselves. With people finder tasks there are no guarantees that you will find the person or info you’re looking for - just as there were never any real guarantees of an outcome with pro, paid private investigators in USA. But the one time 29 dollar price is next to negligible and no one will be more driven than you, a family member, to keep going relentlessly at it until you deliver the information goods that you and your family desperately need. Self help tools are here to stay and the ‘Net falls neatly into that category.

Investigative Editor
Geoffrey P.Dodd
United States

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