Category: Social Media Forensics

Leader of Drug Trafficking Ring that Used Social Media to Communicate and Advertise Wares Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison

Posted on by Stephanie Watson

Defendant Recruited Young People with Images of Money, Exotic Cars, and Expensive Jewelry – Tacoma, Wash. – The leader of a South Puget Sound drug trafficking organization that sent dangerous drugs as far away as Georgia and Ohio was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to ten years in prison for his multi-state drug trafficking scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Tessa M. Gorman. Joel Adrian Valencia Rosas, 28, of Lakewood, […]

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N.J. going after ‘sextortion’ as parents sound alarm on predators who target minors on social media

Posted on by Nicole Deneka

Long gone are the times when law enforcement would simply warn parents of dangerous people on the street. From online video games to every other app that connects to the world, people on the hunt to sextort victims lurk under bogus usernames and identities. […]

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Social Media Timeline of Gabby Petito

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Eleven days into the search for missing travel blogger Gabrielle “Gabby” Petito, authorities reported Tuesday that human remains recovered two days prior at a national park in Wyoming had been positively identified as Petito and that she had died as a result of homicide. […]

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Berkeley Law creates protocol to use social media as evidence for war crimes

Posted on by Nicole Deneka

A three-year joint effort by Berkeley Law’s Human Rights Center (HRC) and the U.N. Human Rights Office, the Protocol marks the first global guidelines for using publicly available information online – including photos, videos, and other content posted to social media sites – as evidence in international criminal and human rights investigations. […]

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Facebook Launches New Video Series, Hosted by Post Malone, Exclusively on Messenger and Instagram

Posted on by Nicole Deneka

Facebook has announced the launch of a new video series, hosted by Post Malone, which it will make exclusively available on Messenger and Instagram via the Watch Together option, which it rolled out back in September. […]

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Google confirms Android 11 will limit third-party camera apps because of location spying fears

Posted on by Nicole Deneka
cellphone camera - Julian Chokkattu / Digital Trends

Google is making a change in Android 11 that will force apps that want to take photos or video to use the phone’s built-in camera app. […]

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TikTok found to have tracked Android users’ MAC addresses until late last year

Posted on by Nicole Deneka
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Until late last year social video app TikTok was using an extra layer of encryption to conceal a tactic for tracking Android users via the MAC address of their device, which skirted Google’s policies and did not allow users to opt out. […]

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