link analysis & social media: a new and powerful investigation...
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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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