Link Analysis & Social Media: A New And Powerful Investigation Tactic
Link Analysis & Social Media: A New And Powerful Investigation Tactic About the presenters Howard Williamson X1 Matt Niessen IBM
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 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 Links within the same MD5 are 1 in the tweet 340 billion billion billion billion. Authors Twitter Handle Handles of those “liking” the tweet Location Description Printscreens do not have metadata or validation
Social Media Discovery Challenges: Search Across Data Types Use a Unified, Purpose-Built Platform Manually Search Multiple Networks
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
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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 “…Our Clear Choice Test winner X1 wins test of six third-party search is X1 Professional Client. In every tools for Windows desktops test scenario it proved superior.” Clear Choice Test Network World
Contact us Howard Williamson hwilliamson@x1.com Matthew Niessen man@us.ibm.com
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