How to Become a Private Investigator
With the police and other security services offloading more of their investigative work onto specialist units, private investigation is a growth business are...
First Steps Exploring the Family Tree
For the uninitiated, embarking on a study of ones ancestors can be daunting task. This guide is therefore intended to lead through the basic first steps to h...
Fighting Online Cheats With Scam Baiting
Sick of having their inboxes clogged up with emails from Nigerian fraudsters promising unimaginable riches, the targets are fighting back by attempting to be...
Spy for Your Local Council
In recruiting volunteers to monitor local ‘environmental quality’ are councils effectively encouraging people to spy on their neighbours? Citizen Recruit...
Monitoring CCTV for Money
With its poor record in fighting crime CCTV is struggling to justify its huge cost and attack on civil liberties, but will offering members of the public mon...
How Google is Watching You
Google may have changed the way we obtain information and the way we view the world but we have been footing the bill for web innovation with our privacy. Th...
Spotting Student Plagiarism
Thanks to the internet the problem of student plagiarism has become a complex one, but web innovation is also helping keep the cheats in check. Growing Probl...
What is Spyware and How Does it Work?
If your computer starts slowing down, crashing or behaving in a strange manner then it may have been infected by spyware, but what is it and how does it work...
How to Join MI6
Joining MI6 was until recently an operation as covert as the organisation’s official business, but now applying to become a spy is simply a matter of filli...
Protecting Privacy on Social Networking Sites
Social networking sites are powerful communication tools that enhance the lives of millions, but they are also a privacy risk if you don’t take care with h...