Putting
a Beijing Face on our Chinese Network Associates, just click on their
Orient Business Investigation Co., Ltd Office picture and visit
their Web Site.
Black Book Online is a Web Site offering books, software and information to U.S. investigators. This Web Site is comprehensive. It includes the the Social Security Number Validation Program like its link below. Just click on it.
Unlike America with its Family Watch Dog USA (more) and its public record listing of those with sexual offenses, their pictures, addresses and arrest records,there are no such databases in Germany and throughout much of the European Union.
Germany like many other European countries have comprehensive data protection laws. There are few Online Data Providers compared to the U.S. Criminal records are not publicly available. When a German is required to prove he or she does not have a criminal record, the individual goes to the police to obtain a statement they have no record.
As of October 2006, even with the threat of barring European flightsfrom landing on U.S. soil, the EU was able to prevent the American Government from obtaining more than the 34 items of personal data it had previously gotten. That was out of a possible 64 items, the usual number it obtains on Americans boarding flights.
The following are PDF formatted documents from the EU:
The following are related U.S. Data Privacy & iD-Theft Links:
The following two PDF formatted reports are on one man's efforts in assisting more than a 1000 Americans to get out of foreign prisons:
*The Erik Audé story ended with his 2004 release and return to Hollywood.
