Protect Your Privacy Cameras Are Tracking You and Your Car Technology to match you, your license plate, and everywhere you drive is spreading faster than most states can protect privacy.
Protect Your Privacy What Is FCRA Compliance? How employers can avoid legal violations when looking into the financial records of employees and potential hires.
Protect Your Privacy Public Records That Can Harm Your Credit Score Any public record on your credit report is a mark against you, but some are worse than others.
Protect Your Privacy Can You Delete or Change Your Own Public Records? From home addresses to court records, what personal information can you take down or change?
Background Search Basics Tips to Help You Pass a Background Check We explain what it means to pass a background check and how to tilt the odds in your favor when you face a background check.
Background Search Basics Reverse Address Lookup: Who Lives There? Vet your neighbors, research a home for sale, and other good uses for a reverse address search.
Safety Job Hunting? What to Do About Gaps in Your Employment Record Be prepared to address longer periods of downtime in a job interview with these valuable strategies.
Relationships 4 Things You Can Learn From a Person's Address History Public records can reveal the messy truth that you won't always see on someone's social media.
Safety Know Your Neighbor: A "Golden Girls" Lesson You might be friendly with the new neighbors at first, until George Clooney shows up.
Court & Criminal Records Can You Pass a Background Check With a Misdemeanor? The possible consequences of having a misdemeanor on your background report, and how long it stays there.
Relationships Find Hidden Social Media Profiles Put on your sleuthing cap and deploy these 5 tried-and-true tricks to uncover hidden social media profiles.
Safety Defeat Porch Pirates: Tips for Avoiding Package Theft Package thieves get bolder and smarter every day. Here's how you can outwit them and stop them from stealing your package.
Background Search Basics Could a Background Check Hurt Your Job Search? Some employers will look beyond your resume, but there are rules for what they can see about you and how they use it.
Relationships Do Dating Apps Even Try to Verify Their Users' Backgrounds? What the big services in the dating scene do to discourage abuse and how you can protect yourself.
Relationships Is Your Divorce Public Record? The realities of (and alternatives to) your divorce records being open to public view.
Safety The Free Tax Prep Service You Already Pay for but Probably Never Heard Of 70% of Americans could prepare their federal tax return easily online for free, if only they knew about the IRS Free File.
Relationships Credit Scores and Committed Relationships: Your Love Match The surprising link between lasting relationships and matching credit scores.
Protect Your Privacy Beware Friends Reading Posts: The Scary Social Media Loophole If you think that restricting your account only to friends makes your social media interactions private, think again.
Background Search Basics Why You Should Background-Search Yourself, and How To potential employers, creditors, landlords, and strangers, your records are your reputation.
Protect Your Privacy Here's What Google Knows About You If you printed out the personal details Google collects on the average person, the papers would stack as high as the Eiffel Tower.
Protect Your Privacy Shut It Down: How You Can Seal Your Court Records These are the steps jurisdictions generally require before a judge might agree to seal, or even destroy, your records.
Safety Seller Beware: Your Online Ad Draws Scammers We are instinctively cautious when purchasing from strangers, but scammers also pretend to be buyers. Learn to spot them.
Background Search Basics How Public Records Give You an Edge in Homebuying Dig up data on the seller, street, and neighborhood to inform your home search and your buying decisions.