Social media is a powerful tool to keep people informed, whether personal or public posting. It gives insight into life style, behaviors and even crimes. There are plenty of examples of people commiting crimes and posting them on social media. There are just as many posts that involve victims of crime and law enforcement using [...]
Our simple thoughts on Best Practices for social Media Preservations. 1.Stay out of the process, remove yourself or your staff from the preservation. You may do the leg work and find the profile, or posting of interest, but once found, step back and have it done in a way that is self-authenticating, or removes yourself [...]
People post and people troll. How or when does trolling become stalking. We cannot answer that fairly because any good private investigator knows where to find and preserve evidence or records found on social media. We spend a lot of time trolling and watching cat videos or my favorite the epic failure videos. On investigation [...]
Yes we can help with a runaway or missing person. They are two separate things based upon the answer, do they want to be found? Or have they just dropped off the radar and are not actively trying to evade detection? ( fallen off the grid) Last season that was an interesting show on network [...]
We are not lawyers but this affects what we do and we now know more. Our forensics systems already meet these guidelines. We have talked about it before, the simple print screen of a web site, or social media post is not going to meet authentication levels and not self-authenticating unless the person doing it [...]
