2429: Information Discovery Using Open Sources & Proprietary Databases

Thursday, June 24, 2004
1:00pm – 2:30pm
Presenter: Cynthia Hetherington

PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION

Demonstrating how your private lives and public information are available through websites as well as “Invisible Web” sources.

Property records, liens, loans and judgments, lawsuits, newspaper articles, donations, death, birth and all that is in between help us to trace individuals and corporate moves. Much of this information is located for free on the World Wide Web. We will identify the sources for this information; compare them to each other based on quality and cost.

Going beyond the gathering process, we will begin to analyze the content and source material for any and all clues when investigating or tracking individuals. This exercise will show you how to look at the information delivered from an investigative view. The techniques shown are born from library and computer science and tailored to an investigators needs.

We will examine open sources on the Web, in newsgroups and listservs. Our goal is to track individual’s information from the CEO to the mailroom technician.

In addition we will also demonstrate the various professional fee-based databases used by skip tracers, investigators and law enforcement to trace and analyze individuals.

PRESENTER BIO

Cynthia Hetherington is principal of Hetherington Information Services, LLC, a New Jersey based Competitive Intelligence and Business Research consultancy. She has over 10 years of experience in conducting text based, Internet and online database research, including a specialization in training law enforcement and private industry professionals' online investigative skills. She holds a Master of Library Science from Rutgers University and a Master in Science for the Management of Information Systems from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Publisher of the Data2know.com: Online and Internet Intelligence Newsletter.

Member of the American Library Association, American Society for Industrial Security, National Association of Legal Investigators, Association of Independent Information Professionals, High Technology Crime Investigation Association –Northeast Chapter, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, National Council of Investigation & Security Services, Inc., NJIT Alpha Epsilon Lambda Honor Society (Past President).

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