Data-fusion companies are making files on everyone — even you
Forget telephoto lenses and fake mustaches: The most important tools for America’s 35,000 private investigators are database subscription services.*
For more than a decade, professional s**ops have been able to search troves of public and **npublic records — k**wn addresses, DMV records, photographs of a person’s car — and condense them into comprehensive reports costing as little as $10. **w they can combine that information with the kinds of things marketers k**w about you, such as which politicians you donate to, what you spend on groceries, and whether it's weird that you ate in last night, to create a portrait of your life and predict your behavior. Read more...