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Category Archives: Social Networks

23 Dec

Building your subject’s resume through alumni directories and Facebook

School alumni directories verify place of attendance, but so much more. They can launch your search to find where someone works, for example. And you know that’s a challenge with a common name. The alumni sites are designed for use...
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Education, Portals & Directories, Research Methods, Social Networks Leave a comment

28 Feb

Make your Facebook “Friends” private

Last week, Terry Towery and I presented, “Using Technology in Investigation, including Social Networking Websites” at the Capital Case Defense Penalty Seminar. I spent a good amount of time talking about finding people on Facebook, even if they have a...
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Social Networks Facebook 5 Comments

25 Oct

Social Networking – Legal and Ethical Issues for Lawyers and Investigators

Should an investigator or attorney “friend” a prosecution witness in order to find impeachment evidence? Are there legal or ethical bars to surreptitiously gathering data from social network profiles? Should the intent of the user have any bearing on the...
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Public Records, Social Networks Conferences, ethics, law, Social Networks 3 Comments

13 Sep

Plaxo People Finder

Social networking sites continue to refine their people finder tools — and some unintended ones are being exploited by savvy investigators. Linkedin, MySpace, Facebook all have internal search engines to find their member webpages. Linkedin and MySpace have multiple search...
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Social Networks people finder, plaxo, Privacy, Social Networks 1 Comment

12 Sep

Search Private Facebook Notes

Facebook profiles — “info” and “wall” pages — are often viewable to others in the same network, providing historical and real-time intelligence for your investigations. All this can be done passively without a special request to “friend” them. I have...
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Privacy, Public Records, Social Networks facebook notes, Privacy, Social Networks 1 Comment

24 Dec

The armchair investigator: Social Media and Teens

The Pew Internet & American Life Project report, Teens and Social Media, supports the continuing importance of the Internet for due diligence, background, employment and skip tracing investigations, as well as, reputation research and even surveillance for legal and insurance...
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Research Methods, Social Networks 3 Comments

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