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The Byte Chase

Number 967
Subject Backgrounding
Source Neil Reisner
State Miami Herald
Year 1999
Publication Date Kansas City
Summary Backgrounding individuals is one of reporters' nuts-and-bolts tasks. In this age of the World Wide Web, databrokers and Lexis/Nexis, much can be done online. But not everything. It's important to remember that almost anything you see on a computer screen was at one time a paper document. Therefore, it's useful to think the same way about electronic records as you might about paper.
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