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Tag Archives: Social Networks

3 Feb

Online Photo and Name Matching

Someone asked me if there was a way to start with a facial image photo and connect it to an identity and name. Suppose you were searching for a person on a dating site and wanted to corroborate the information...
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Research Methods, Search Engines, Social Networks people finder, Social Networks Leave a comment

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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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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