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Paul Dank

Paul Dank

Executive Director of Kennis Member Vetting and President of ASG Investigations, specializing in private club membership applicant vetting and due diligence.

Jul 27, 2026

16:51
Is there still a real separation between online life and real life? How much can someone realistically learn about a person just from publicly available information?
17:05
Well, that's a great question, and it's unique to the individual.
17:08
So you have people that have a very small footprint that they've left and in turn also have very infrequent footprints left by third parties.
17:19
I think a lot of times I'm going to bring this up only because I think it helps with context.
17:25
I think a lot of times.
17:27
people in clubs or anywhere believe that the content that an individual posts themselves about themselves, right? Their Facebook, their LinkedIn, their Instagram, that that's the information that's available about them.
17:41
And the reality is we're finding now that there's more third parties that have created information about people than information that they've posted about themselves.
19:56
Can you... find other instances i guess so to speak like or can you kind of like find these sort of writings and then kind of bring to a club so meaning like if this guy i'm just saying for example wasn't a member of this club or was trying to join and you just start going down your rabbit hole can you find this stuff and bring it back to the club and go hey we found kind you know this guy's care you know he says he's great on paper but He's really bashing people in the comments on social media and very aggressive and blah, blah, blah.

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