This blog suggests that the United States Postal Service, software companies and financial services work together to develop a method to require validation of all credit applications against a preferred NCOA ("National Change of Address) database of registered addresses, so that fictitious persons can not be made up. See Sept. 25, 2006 posting for statement of proposal.
Since the 1990s I have been very involved with fighting the military "don't ask don't tell" policy for gays in the military, and with First Amendment issues. Best contact is 571-334-6107 (legitimate calls; messages can be left; if not picked up retry; I don't answer when driving) Three other url's: doaskdotell.com, billboushka.com johnwboushka.com Links to my URLs are provided for legitimate content and user navigation purposes only.
My legal name is "John William Boushka" or "John W. Boushka"; my parents gave me the nickname of "Bill" based on my middle name, and this is how I am generally greeted. This is also the name for my book authorship. On the Web, you can find me as both "Bill Boushka" and "John W. Boushka"; this has been the case since the late 1990s. Sometimes I can be located as "John Boushka" without the "W." That's the identity my parents dealt me in 1943!
Here’s astory about another “background investigation” tool, called “Truthfinder” , on AOL news.
It seems to comprise an uber-compilation of public records about a person, but I don’t know how reliable it is, or whether it picks up the wrong person sometimes.
I don’t look people up on these sites ordinarily. I don’t spy on people out of “curiosity” or as a “spectator sport”. The only exception would be if the person were going to be housed or employed by me. But then, who should bear the moral hazard for any inaccurate information on a site like this. I guess the other person could find out you had looked him up by joining.
