The Use of Internet Monitoring Software for Preventative Policing

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The Use of Internet Monitoring Software for
Preventative Policing

• With online criminal activity flourishing and
  often escalating into sometimes deadly offline
  crime, law enforcement authorities are
  increasingly adopting advanced automated internet
  monitoring software to stay ahead and protect
  their communities.

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The Use of Internet Monitoring Software for
Preventative Policing

• Media platforms such as blogs, forums and media
  websites have provided criminals with simplified
  and often anonymous conduits to conduct illegal
  business, exploiting their ability to hide in the
  shadows.
• The ability to instantly establish
  communication links has the potential to foster
  criminal behavior a lot easier than it would be
  offline. And with many victims of cybercrime
  ill-prepared to deal with its aftermath, there is
  a need for authorities to take a more proactive
  approach to crime prevention.

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The Use of Internet Monitoring Software for
Preventative Policing

• But with a large majority of adults using
  social media web, a 2016 survey by the
  International Association of Chiefs of Police and
  Urban Institute found that 76 percent of officers
  web monitor media for tips on crime and another
  70 percent for gathering media intelligence.
• Law enforcement agencies have begun to use
  web monitoring services in order to identify
  potential school shooters and terrorists, using
  both readily available intelligence and media
  intelligence gathered by internet monitoring
  software.

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The Use of Internet Monitoring Software for
Preventative Policing

• Data-driven media monitoring services can
  provide critical insights to authorities to
  monitor, track and analyze online activity on all
  levels of the internet, including the deep and
  dark web in order to discover new data sources
  and leads to optimize their investigations.
• A web monitoring service with smart
  algorithms and case management tools can develop
  target profiles, map social circles and groups,
  extract critical insights from new data sources
  as well as live data analysis, transform a single
  lead into a complete end-to-end social media web
  investigation.

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The Use of Internet Monitoring Software for
Preventative Policing

• AI Supported software can also conduct face
  detection and recognition processes with a
  monitoring AI algorithm automatically detecting
   faces and attributes and facial features..
• The web monitoring AI service will trigger
  real-time alerts, including from web sources with
  limited public information, so investigators can
  then build a more robust case with actionable
  data against criminals.
• Media monitoring is enhanced by Natural
  Language Processing capabilities, which are key
  to understanding the meaning behind a suspects
  posts with the ability to perform sentiment
  analysis in order to map out the suspects
  feelings towards topics.

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The Use of Internet Monitoring Software for
Preventative Policing

• Using natural language processing tools and
  social media intelligence, law enforcement
  authorities can scan the web for keywords they
  believe might indicate criminal activity that
  could pose a risk to the public.
• Harvesting data collected by social media
  intelligence platforms across all layers of the
  web allow law enforcement investigators to save
  crucial amounts of time needed to help solve
  cases and identify threats before they happen.
• For more information on internet monitoring
  software please contact Cobwebs