Finding internet evidence
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This document provides tips and tools for collecting internet evidence. It discusses using WHOIS searches to find information about domain registrants, the Wayback Machine for archived website snapshots, reverse image searches to verify identities, and various social media search tools like AllMyTweets, Knowem, and Social Searcher. The document cautions that only clients, not assistants, should directly access online accounts and platforms. It also includes an ethics scenario about using a relative's friendship on Facebook to view information about a plaintiff.
Finding internet evidence
- 1. HMPro: Insert Title Finding Internet Evidence April 1, 2017 Dan Michaluk
- 2. HMPro: Insert Title Tips for collection • Clients (and assistants, if you must), not you • Capture all the relevant evidence • Capture periodically • Print, screen capture or screen recorder are fine • But use a file naming protocol and create an evidence log
- 3. HMPro: Insert Title Tools and techniques – WHOIS search • About who controls an internet domain name • May point to a local registrar who has a relationship with a person of interest 3
- 4. HMPro: Insert Title Tools and techniques – The Wayback Machine • Goto <archive.org> • Periodic, point-in-time snapshots of many but not all websites 4
- 5. HMPro: Insert Title Tools and techniques – Reverse image search • Use it in addition to a name search to be more thorough • Use it to see if someone is a real person 5
- 6. HMPro: Insert Title Tools and techniques – Allmytweets • Get a complete list of a person’s tweets • May capture words better than using the twitter application 6
- 7. HMPro: Insert Title Tools and techniques – Knowem • Does your person of interest have a username? • Search to see what platforms he or she might be using 7
- 8. HMPro: Insert Title Tools and techniques – Social searcher • Search across social media platforms • Good intelligence tool • Consider use in crises situations 8
- 9. HMPro: Insert Title Ethics scenario • You’re prepping for a wrongful and mitigation is an issue. The plaintiff claims she’s too depressed to search for work as a result of the discharge. You’re skepitcal but don’t have good evidence. Low an behold, Facebook is telling you that your cousin Betty is friends with the plaintiff. Betty is discreet and owes you one. Can you use Better to take a peek at the plaintiff’s Facebook? 9
- 10. HMPro: Insert Title Ethics scenario 10
- 11. HMPro: Insert Title Finding Internet Evidence April 1, 2017 Dan Michaluk