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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
 

App: One Love My Plan

By Arnout de Vries on March 8, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, My Plan, One Love
One Love My Plan?(iTunes, Android) was created by Mongoose Projects, and is tailored to identifying and tracking relationship and intimate partner violence. The app is designed for college-age women and their friends to relay personal accounts of partner violence. The app provides users with information on different types of partner violence as well as places where they can find additional information and support. The app features [...]
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Fighting Crime, One Tweet at a Time

By Arnout de Vries on February 24, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: crime, kenya, Police, policing, twitter
Policing in Kenia When four machete-wielding thieves invaded a home in Lanet Umoja, Kenya, they were met by an army of crime-fighters?citizen crime-fighters, that is. Chief of Police Francis Kariuki had at his disposal one of the most powerful communication tools known to man. He had Twitter. Twitter, after all, is credited for bringing down Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and facilitating student riots in Gezi Park in Istanbul [...]
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Milk carton 2.0

By Arnout de Vries on February 6, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: amber alert, Etan Patz, milk carton, missing persons, NCMEC
The old Wanted posters from the Wild West that had to be distributed with the stagecoach are now still used, but on a modern and digital bulletin board on the Internet. But being creative also helps. In 1984 the National Child Safety Council launched the first National Missing Children Milk Carton Program. Because people who look at their breakfast ?and see the face of a missing child, will pay [...]
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Social Media Safety Centers

By Arnout de Vries on January 23, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: crime, criminal, facebook, guidelines, law enforcement, Police, policy, safety, safety center, social media
If in social venues?something goes wrong you have for example the barman in a pub whom?you can talk to, at larger venues, there are porters, but most social media services have?entire departments. But they service the whole world. Facebook has, for some time now, a Safety Center?that is intended to help the many users make the online platform a bit safer. There is a whole team of people introduce [...]
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Letzgo Hunting

By Arnout de Vries on January 23, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: citizen, investigation, Letzgo Hunting, sleuthing, witch hunt
Internet vigilante group Letzgo Hunting has been criticised for some of its efforts to expose paedophiles. What is this group and who’s behind it? Letzgo Hunting’s website currently just displays a sign saying “maintenance mode” with no details of this mysterious group’s activities. But on a cached version it says: “Letzgo Hunting is a dedicated group of individuals who make it their business to flush out devious and unscrupulous individuals [...]
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Homocide Watch

By Arnout de Vries on January 23, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: citizen, DC, homocide, investigations, public, USA, washington, watch
Someone is murdered in Washington, DC every couple of days. If it’s someone famous (or rich), that news makes a splash. It’ll be on television and in the paper, paraded across websites and memorialized by the powerful. If the person isn’t famous, the news will be almost nowhere. In fact, it might show up on a single site, HomicideWatch.org, the brainchild of Laura Amico created with coding?assistance?from her husband, [...]
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Foursquare

By Arnout de Vries on January 22, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: burglary, foursquare
Foursquare was launched in 2009 with a limited availability in the United States. In 2010, Foursquare changed this policy and the network was opened to users worldwide. In March 2010 Foursquare knew 500,000 users worldwide. Foursquare is a web and mobile application that allows registered users to update their location (venue) to friends. When users check in at locations, they can earn points. Users can share these so [...]
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WhatsApp: neighborhood watch

By Arnout de Vries on January 22, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, beighborhood, communities, community, group, municipality, neighbourhood, Police, twitter, vigilante, watch, whats, whatsapp
Image: citizens work together with the police (the slide is entitled: “A 1000 eyes”) There are a growing number of?WhatsApp vigilante groups that try to build a safer neighborhood on?a local scale?(part of the groups are also active on Twitter). WhatsApp enables users to exchange messages for free and share files with each other. The exact number of groups that are active in the Netherlands is unknown, but [...]
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Chatroulette: virtual bullets from your webcam

By Arnout de Vries on January 22, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: abuse, bullets, chance, chat, chatroulette, extortion, freak, just.me, masturbate, omegle, prankster, roulette, safety, sexting, sixteen, webcam
Chatroulette is not yet as dangerous as the Russian roulette, simply because a webcam can’t spit bullets, but it is definitely not without risks. Chatroulette is a website that brings people together for random conversations via the webcam. Visitors usually start with a chat with any stranger (video and text) that is online. At any time, a user can end the chat and start a new conversation with someone [...]
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Chat: Snapchatters beware!

By Arnout de Vries on January 22, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: capture, catch, crime, expose, extort, hack, iphone, leak, Photo, sexting, share, snapchat, spread
Sending photos via Snap Chat can be dangerous. And with the launch of the app Snap Save it just became a tad more dangerous to send embarrassing photos because it enables the recipients of ‘Snaps’?to keep them without notifying the sender. Snap Chat is an application to send photos and videos?with a time limit for exposure. The app is incredibly popular; There are about 150 million messages exchanged [...]
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