Previously, private credit guides offered detailed, if unreliable, information on easily identifiable individuals.
But torture often produces unreliable information because victims are likely to tell torturers whatever will get them to stop.
It was a brilliant and vicious gossip, and a generous source of unreliable information.
Jewell's case is considered an example of the damage that can be done by reporting based on unreliable or incomplete information.
If not from finding Julia, then with detectives who continued to provide her with unreliable information.
"You're aware, aren't you, how unreliable information is when it is elicited by torture?"
The officials believe that the unreliable information that has occasionally been broadcast is evidence journalists cannot be trusted.
The Speaker himself has acknowledged that he submitted "inaccurate, incomplete and unreliable" information.
What little is known of his life rests upon unreliable information.
It merely seeks to prevent the transmission of unreliable information.