Last week Wednesday we held a webinar for law enforcement and security professionals to learn more about how they can utilize and take advantage of the world’s largest publicly-available database, the Internet. Don’t worry if you missed it, we recap some of the items that you missed in this post.
With more publicly-available, open source, online data at the fingertips of investigators and analysts, the Internet has become the single largest data source for information collection and intelligence. Crime and conversation regarding crime is occurring online. It is now more important than ever for law enforcement professionals to collect, track, and monitor publicly-available data. We […]
The final results are in for the semi-annual #poltwt Tweet-a-Thon by LAwS Communications. In case you missed it, on Friday, June 27, individuals were instructed to use the hashtag #poltwt to help create awareness about police work and issues while promoting how social media can be used in everyday policing. We harvested all the #poltwt data from […]
The 2014 Global Police Tweet-a-Thon hosted and created by LAwS Communications is back. Starting Friday, June 27, at 12 a.m., law enforcement agencies around the world are invited to connect via Twitter and participate in a 24-hour Tweet-a-Thon using the hashtag #poltwt. We’ll be harvesting #poltwt data and releasing an analysis of the results next week.
With both Internet adoption rates and purchases being made on e-commerce sites at an all-time high, it comes as no surprise that a market ripe with counterfeit, stolen, and fraudulent goods online has also developed. We are holding a free webinar on how to use open sources to stop online fraud and counterfeiting at 1 p.m. […]
BrightPlanet is excited to announce that Tyson Johnson, Vice President of Business Development, will be presenting at the 25th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference in San Antonio, T.X., next week.
We know you have heard of Big Data but have you heard the term ‘data-as-a-service’? If not, you will soon. Find out how data-as-a-service relates to Big Data and what it is in our latest whitepaper.
We have written a few posts about structured versus unstructured data, open source intelligence (OSINT) and how organizations are using it. In this post, we want to give five reasons why your organization should be using OSINT.
We are proud to announce our Data-as-a-Service technology is being used to support the HealthITxChange. See how in our recently completed case study.
Being in the business of collecting and enriching data from the web, much of the emphasis is focused on either the collection of the content or the enrichment of the content. The actual value; however, is when you are able to create a story from the whole process: harvesting, enriching, and analyzing. In today’s posting, […]