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What's changed is not the publicly available data, but the cost involved in searching it.

20 years ago would it have been worth the resources required to put a 'search agent' (a real investigator) into the social network (every pub) to recover a four figure sum of taxes owed?

People's expectations haven't yet caught up with regards to being caught for low level crimes that were routinely not enforceable in the recent past.



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