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|  Facebook, best friend of private detective
You can not imagine anything we can learn in just a few clicks ... Give me two hours, and I know everything about you. " The Nestor Burma modern suit and tie iPhone, you spy primarily via the Web. "It's like all our business evolves over time. Before it was spinning bike, now using the Internet and satellites ... There is nothing extraordinary about it, "says Goolam Monsoor, private detective - or rather, as they say in the trade," ARP "to Research Officer private. Friday, he participated to the States General of the profession held by the three major unions for the image of the dust trade.
"95% of information is freely available"
First board (beginner) Yves Conversano, director of the Primary school private detectives in France (IFAR): "See the white pages." No need to store Botines of all French departments to search such as address the mistress of the husband. "It is silly, perfectly legal and that really works," says the detective who forms a fifteen students each year. "Why take the risk of breaking the law, while 95% of information is easily and legally," says Alain Juillet, head of State in charge of economic intelligence since 2003. "It's as if all the information was provided on a plateau," says an agent, twenty years of experience in the boot.
For example, to know the name of a company manager, "more needs to enter four-hour queue at the court of commerce. Infogreffe.fr consult on, and it is a morning's work won. "And in the future: press archives, Personal ... Internet speeds up and simplifies research, even if "we had the Minitel already simplified life, recalled Alain Bernier, the president of the largest trade union (the CNSP-ARP). He admits the move to use a little today.
Detectives love Facebook
GPS improves "damn" the lives of detectives. "What progress! Longer need to stay stash of hours in the car to watch the wife of a jealous husband. With GPS tracking (integrated in more and more phones), we can follow his movements, breath a specialist business torque iphone in hand.
But the revolution in business comes from social networks like Facebook or Friends before. "This is a working tool. When you start an investigation, we check whether the person has a profile on Facebook, the ba ba ...», provides a young detective, fresh out of school. Another, based in Lille last fifteen years: "People tell their whole life in detail. And the crazier: the information is correct, most do not even lie. "
But by "professionalism", he always go check on the ground the information found on the Net. Matter of principle and habit. "I prefer the human contact. We learn a lot by going to the people. The classic "Hello, I come for the census" is a good value "
"Nevertheless, Facebook is very effective, much more useful than the police files as Edvige. CNIL does not put a spoke in the wheel, "says Alain Juillet, raising laughs (a little pinched) among the big hundred research officers present on Friday that the 1500 exercise in the territory.
So easy to create an email ...
They can say, it is difficult to understand how these detectives are both private information, quite legally, on the web. How, for example, force their way on Facebook, so that users can restrict access to a community of friends.
First response official from the school of private detectives: "All the students learned techniques are perfectly legal." Second reply, more enigmatic (smile, certainly a legacy of old American series), such as "a good agent is like a magician. It has plenty of laps in his bag. If it reveals the tricks, there is more magic ... "After several attempts, you learn a little more:" Anyone can create false accounts Facebook ... Just pretending to be an old acquaintance and doors open. You can also create as many email addresses as needed, using the names of friends found on a network. Or using a catch-all names and reassuring: "We all kind of addresses or Ms. Dupont Durand, hyper efficient: people fall into the trap every time we say anything we want to know |
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