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Link Analysis & Social Media: A New And Powerful Investigation Tactic

About the presenters

Howard Williamson X1 Matt Niessen IBM Link Analysis & Social Media: A New And Powerful Investigation Tactic

Agenda

• Link Analysis For Investigations
• Social Media: The Challenges of a New Data Type
• Custodian Setup
• Authentication / Validation
• Searching Across Multiple Data Types
• X1 Social Discovery: Supercharging Investigations in

IBM i2 Analyst’s Notebook

Link Analysis For Investigations

• Rapidly piece together disparate data into a single

cohesive intelligence picture

• Identify key people, events, connections and patterns

that might otherwise be missed

• Increase understanding of the structure, hierarchy

and method of operation of criminal, terrorist and fraudulent networks

• Simplify the communication of complex data to

enable timely and accurate operational decision making

• Capitalize on rapid deployment that delivers

productivity gains quickly using a well-established visual analysis solution

Without Social Media In Investigations, You Are Missing The Full Story

Social Media is becoming more important than email

Social Network connections are used more than twice as much as email amongst teens

Now there is an economical and easy way to get Social Media Content Into Analyst’s Notebook…X1 Social Discovery

Social Media Discovery Challenges: Target Setup

Demonstration

X1 Social Discovery

Social Media Discovery Challenges: Authentication / Validation

What’s wrong with print screen?

• Not text searchable
• Does not get metadata
• Does not provide validation
• Not scalable and not efficient
• Stallings v. City of Johnston, 2014 WL 2061669 (S.D. Ill. May 19,

2014)

• Plaintiff’s counsel and a paralegal spent a full week printing out

the contents of Plaintiff’s Facebook account — which amounted to over 500 printed pages

• A week of paralegal and lawyer time could easily run $25,000
• Case law says no!

Print Screen Does Not Hold Up In Court

• Moroccanoil vs. Marc Anthony Cosmetics, – F.Supp.3d – (2014)

federal district court explicitly ruled that Facebook screenshots were inadmissible as the defendant in a trademark infringement action merely offered the screenshots without supporting circumstantial information

• United States vs. Vayner, 2014 WL 4942227 (C.A. 2 (N.Y.)) –

federal district court overturned a criminal conviction upon finding that the lower court erroneously admitted a screenshot of the defendant’s alleged social media profile due to improper authentication

• Other cases:
• Smith v. State, Supreme Court of Mississippi, April 17, 2014, 2014 WL

15113032.

• People v. Anderson, Court of Appeals, Michigan, April 08, 2014, 2014 WL

13833993.

• Randazza v. Cox, U.S. District Court, Nevada, April 10, 2014, 2014 WL

1407378

Rich Metadata Vital To Link Analysis – Only X1 Social Collects Full Metadata

Printscreens do not have metadata or validation

Authors Twitter Handle Location Description Links within the tweet

This represents the unique identifier of this particular

• post. The chance of 2

different people having the same DNA test results are 1 in 10 trillion. The odd of 2 different posts having the same MD5 are 1 in 340 billion billion billion billion.

Handles of those “liking” the tweet

Social Media Discovery Challenges: Search Across Data Types

Manually Search Multiple Networks Use a Unified, Purpose-Built Platform

Key Takeaways

• Social Media is discoverable and requires detailed

technical authentication

• Defensibility does not equal complexity; social discovery

is fast, comprehensive, and simple with X1 Social Discovery

• The solution must support the litigation workflow – think

“reviewability”

• X1 Social Discovery provides immediate ROI – vastly

reduces the time to collect, preserver, filter, and review social media

Q&A

Questions

About X1

• Founded by Idealab
• Powered by award winning and patented X1 search

technology

• Driven by a proven and experienced enterprise software team
• Supporting over 500 enterprise customers and over 400,000

active users

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Contact us

Howard Williamson hwilliamson@x1.com Matthew Niessen man@us.ibm.com