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About SocialMediaDNA

SocialMediaDNA is about sharing knowledge on social media and law enforcement. Topics vary from online components in public order, criminal investigations, intelligence, prosecution to emergency management and communications. More

About SocialMediaDNA

SocialMediaDNA is about sharing knowledge on social media and law enforcement. Topics vary from online components in public order, criminal investigations, intelligence, prosecution to emergency management and communications. More
 

Friendica

By Arnout de Vries on July 1, 2015 · Add Comment Tagged With: Friendica, IS, isis, islamic, platform, social media, state, twitter
Friendica (formerly known as Friendika) is open source software that implements a distributed social network. Before it became Friendika, the project started initially as Mistpark, developed by Mike Macgirvin, a software developer who had worked on the original Netscape Navigator project, among others. Friendica has an emphasis on extensive privacy settings and easy server installation. It aims to federate with as many other social networks as possible. In November 2014, [...]
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App: Terrorview

By Arnout de Vries on July 1, 2015 · Add Comment Tagged With: alert, app, attack, incident, news, terrorist, Terrorview
For the first time, threat information that was previously seen only by senior government officials is being made available to the public ? without compromising national security. TerrorView, a product from?ConteGoView, Inc., uses proprietary technology and on-the-ground intelligence experts to gather and analyze data from over 100,000 sources, enabling users to?track terrorist, cyber and biological threats throughout the world and down the block. Joshua [...]
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App: Pulsepoint

By Arnout de Vries on July 1, 2015 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, arrest, cardiac, CPR, healthcare, lifesaver, pulsepoint, safety
Pulsepoint has been called a life-saving smartphone app. It connects?potential rescuers with victims of sudden cardiac arrest. “My heart just quit,” said Rodney Druen, Cardiac Arrest Victim.?Druen said he is a walking example of the lifesaving power of CPR.?”Brad — lives cross the road –?come down and gave me CPR,” ?Earlier this year, he suffered the sudden cardiac arrest and a neighbor performed CPR until help arrived.?”If it [...]
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App: Goa Police SOS

By Arnout de Vries on June 11, 2015 · Add Comment Tagged With: 112, 911, alarm, app, emergency, goa, india, Photo, picture, Police
The Goa Police launched a mobile application for helping citizens to reach out for instant help in times of emergency, easily access Goa Police, and to add to the overall vigilance in the state. A spokesperson of Goa police on Monday said that it is an effort to build a simple yet effective platform for users to reach out or source for help in [...]
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“I argue for better citizen investigation via Social Media”

By smdorg on May 24, 2015 · Add Comment Tagged With: citizen investigation, DNA, social media
?There are major changes in investigation. Citizens mobilise each other and resolve issues through social media. ?Do-it-yourself policing? is changing tactical investigation radically.? This is the view of TNO researcher Arnout de Vries. ?The police and legal authorities can make far better use of this. That?s why I argue for a new balance between closed security organisations and the open networked society using social media to the fullest.? ?The critical [...]
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App: Companion

By Arnout de Vries on May 9, 2015 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, are you ok, companion, emergency, friend, SafeTrek, safety
Turn your phone into a bodyguard: the?Companion app virtually accompanies you on journeys and warns friends and family if you’re in trouble. Before setting off on a journey, users input a starting point and destination.?A designated ‘companion’ can then track the phone’s GPS on a map.?The free app periodically shows a button to the user asking ‘Are you OK?’?If they don’t press it within 15 seconds, [...]
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App: Burglarproof

By Arnout de Vries on April 23, 2015 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, burglarproof, burglary, northyorkshire, Police, web, webapp
Protect your property from burglars – use this simple web app to run through our quick home security self-assessment and other interactive guides. One in four burglaries are crimes of opportunity, where the burglar enters through an unlocked door or window – and you are ten times more likely to be burgled if you don’t have basic security – even something as simple as putting strong locks on your doors [...]
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Crime Locker

By Arnout de Vries on April 13, 2015 · Add Comment Tagged With: case, citizen, crime, crowdsourcing, investigation, investigative, journalism, locker, monitoring, murder, platform, Police, scanning, social, social media, solving, wanted, writers
The world?s first true crime unsolved social investigation site (not operational yet). There are 200,000 unsolved murders in America since 1980. Forty Percent of the homicides in the United States go unsolved. In 1960, that number was only 10 percent. Crime Locker is the nation?s largest unsolved murders and missing persons database?with photos, evidence and in-depth narrative of each case. Sign in with your Facebook or foursquare [...]
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Shedding Light on the Dark Web

By Arnout de Vries on March 17, 2015 · Add Comment Tagged With: crime, dark web, darknet, deep web, Dutch, illegal, internet, KPN, market place, NCSRA, NCSS, onion, organised, Police, router, Team High Tech Crime, TNO, TOR
A guest?article by Mark van Staalduinen (TNO) and Roeland van Zeijst (Dutch National Police) on the Dark Web, the Silk Road 2.0 case and expected future trends. Note: this article discusses several suspects in current criminal court cases, who of course are legally considered to be innocent until proven otherwise. In November 2014, the illegal TOR market place Silk Road 2.0 was taken down, as well [...]
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Interview with OPIT – Online Predator Investigation Team

By Arnout de Vries on January 23, 2015 · Add Comment Tagged With: ben collis, citizen, hunter, investigation, online, OPIT, predator, stinson, team, websleuths
Around the end of last year?I had an interview with the British citizen investigation initiative OPIT, the Online Predator Investigation Team. Brendan Collis?from Derby has been doing this type of work for a few years, and he does this together with his wife. In the interview he?uncovers what motivates them, how they work, the successes they achieved, but also the pitfalls they see for people who [...]
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