Thinking about social media’s relevance to law enforcement, there are two different applications – using social media to facilitate communication between cops, versus mining clues about suspects from social media sites. I’ve written about the latter here, but there are also some important things we need to consider as social media tools are more...
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As law enforcement analysts and investigating officers do their jobs, they are finding a treasure trove of useful information on the Web. In fact, there’s been a significant increase in the amount of open source data that is being used by law enforcement over the past 5 years. Internet search tools, social networking sites,...
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Back in May, an article for Federal Computer Week entitled, “Intelligence Community Wrestles with Web 2.0 Tools for Information Sharing.” by Alan Joch asked an important question that caught my attention: “Do Web 2.0 technologies, such as blogs and wikis, have the potential to improve data sharing for law enforcement intelligence analysis?” Such technologies...
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