find-anyone

# Find anyone Turn a name into a sourced profile of one specific human. The work is 20% finding data and 80% proving the data belongs to your subject and not to someone with the same name. Beginners collect first and disambiguate later; that is how you end up with a confident, well-cited dossier describing two different people fused into one. Bind the name to a second selector before you collect anything. ## Step 1 — Authorized scope Write down, before searching: the subject, the objective, what is in bounds, what is out of bounds, and which jurisdiction's law governs you and the subject. Read [../../ETHICS.md](../../ETHICS.md). Built for: counterparty and investor due diligence, fraud and asset investigation, journalism, skip tracing and debt recovery, missing persons, pre-employment integrity checks on senior or fiduciary roles, and personal self-defense — running yourself to see what an attacker would find. Out of bounds, always: establishing a private individual's home address, routine movements, children, medical status, immigration status, or sexuality for any purpose other than a documented lawful one; anything that puts you in contact with the subject; and any use a reasonable person would call surveillance. If your objective is to confront, embarrass, or reach the subject in person, stop. See also the US employment-and-tenancy restriction in `dig-through-data-brokers`, which binds a large share of the sources here. **Done when** the scope note exists in the cas...