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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
 

Do It Yourself Policing to increase road safety: Traffic Droid

By Arnout de Vries on December 20, 2017 · Add Comment Tagged With: cyclists, Droid, law enforcement, lewis, london, Police, road, safety, social media, traffic, youtube
?Foul!? yells Lewis, aka Traffic Droid, from his bicycle before brandishing a red card in the face of a dumbfounded delivery driver. The scene is not a football pitch, rather the middle of a London street, where Lewis, alias the ?Traffic Droid?, is busy enforcing the law. The 51-year-old is one of dozens of British cyclists who have found a new raison d’etre: to travel the land recording reckless drivers [...]
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How QUIN helps investigators catch fugitives in HUNTED

By Arnout de Vries on November 15, 2017 · Add Comment Tagged With: Agatha Christie, algorithms, data, law enforcement, Police, policing, predictive, QUIN, science, selmar smit, TNO
The second season of the television programme Hunted opens on Monday 6 November (AvroTros, NPO3). In this programme, 14 ?fugitives? spend 21 days trying to escape capture by a team of expert professional investigators. This season the ?hunters? will be supported by QUIN, a predictive model for fugitives developed by TNO. QUIN ? short for ?Question & Investigate? ? is the brainchild of Selmar Smit, an artificial intelligence researcher. The [...]
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DIY Policing

By Arnout de Vries on September 28, 2017 · Add Comment Tagged With: cops, detectives, diy policing, do it yourself, internet, investigations, law enforcement, Police
The internet, smartphones and social media have become tools for citizens to perform activities that fall within the range of police work and the work of other organisations dealing with public security. Like modern Sherlock Holmes citizens assist the police and go beyond. They report on crimes, investigate, identify suspects and form vigilante groups. Citizens employ social media for criminal investigation, for crime prevention or for ensuring public [...]
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A Pattern Language of Social Media in Public Security

By Arnout de Vries on September 28, 2017 · Add Comment Tagged With: best practice, EU, examples, h2020, Media4sec, policing, social media, worldwide
This report from the EU project?[email protected]?summarizes practices of social media use in public security. Our goal is to create an inventory of best practices, lessons-learned, and roles and responsibilities, to analyse specifically how social media is being used by police and other public security planners, within and outside Europe. By providing an overall description, we aim to spark discussions and provide a common language for social media use in [...]
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Policing the Dark Web

By Arnout de Vries on September 28, 2017 · Add Comment Tagged With: bitcoin, blockchain, crime, criminals, crypto, currency, dark, dark web, dream, europol, internet, interpol, market, money, Police, policing, social media, social web, TOR, wallet
Technology has revolutionized policing practices and at the same time it has facilitated criminality. The Dark Web has emerged as a digital space where content has been intentionally concealed and users can surf anonymously. It is used for several legitimate purposes, such as to perform marketing tracking, to circumvent censorship and to conduct research on topics that might be sensitive in certain countries. At the same time, the [...]
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Social Media Quick Scan

By Arnout de Vries on September 9, 2017 · Add Comment Tagged With: crime, crime scene, detectives, facebook, incident, intelligence, investigation, monitoring, NOS, Police, recherche, rug, social media, tarik, TNO, twitter
Detectives perceive an information overload in using social media data in police investigations, because of the abundance of available information, limitations in human processing capacity and problems in human-machine interaction. This results in a possible loss of relevant information that is publically available from the first minute after a crime. The research field of information visualization is especially aimed at making large amounts of data intelligible. This thesis [...]
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Effects of Operation Bayonet – AlphaBay exit, Hansa-down. Dream on?

By Arnout de Vries on August 30, 2017 · Add Comment Tagged With: alphabay, bayonet, dark web, dream market, drugs, europol, FBI, grams, hansa, interpol, operation, pgp, Police, TNO
Recently, during Operation Bayonet two leading underground markets on the Dark Web took center stage in a joint policing effort of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National High Tech Crime and Dark Web unit of the Dutch Police. In a coordinated sweep, the FBI succeeded in the takeover and subsequently take down of AlphaBay, while the Dutch Police took over, ran and shut down Hansa [...]
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Helpful Hackers

By Arnout de Vries on June 28, 2017 · Add Comment Tagged With: chris van t hof, crime, cyber, ethical, hackers, helpful, security, white hat
?Hospital leaks patient records?, ?Public transport smartcard has more holes than a sieve?, ?Mobile banking app unsafe? ? it seems that everything can be hacked these days. Fortunately, the person who discovers a flaw is not necessarily a cybercriminal but is often someone who wants to help improve cyber security. He or she immediately contacts the system owner so that the problem can be solved. A well-coordinated approach allows everyone [...]
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How Real-Time Intelligence improves police effectiveness

By Arnout de Vries on June 11, 2017 · Add Comment Tagged With: algorithms, CAS, Delta, Hague, intelligence, lab, law enforcement, Police, real-time, reasoning, RTI, scenario based, security, TNO
It?s every parent?s nightmare: you become distracted for a few seconds and suddenly your toddler has disappeared. At times like that, the police quickly arrive on the scene. But it is very difficult for them to work out exactly what has happened. That?s where Real-Time Intelligence (RTI) comes in. RTI enables you to quickly collate relevant knowledge and information from a range of different systems. This helps you [...]
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Report: From Predictive Policing to Prescriptive Policing

By Arnout de Vries on June 11, 2017 · Add Comment Tagged With: knightscope, policing, predictive, prescriptive
The autonomous Knightscope droid uses Predictive Policing software to know where it should be Predictive Policing is nothing more than police operations based on predictions of crime. By crunching big data with sophisticated algorithms, the police will be able to predict crimes and be present at locations where the next incident is most likely. This publication describes the development of Predictive Policing and its underlying principles. Introducing Predictive Policing in [...]
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