Investigation
Watching people through their own posts
2021Reporting revealed ShadowDragon's SocialNet lets police monitor people's movements and networks by scraping and linking hundreds of online sources, often with little oversight.
Social Media Monitoring
ShadowDragon
ShadowDragon's tools, including SocialNet and Horizon, pull from 200-plus social-media, messaging, and dark-web sources to map a target's accounts, contacts, and movements for law enforcement — enabling deep profiling of people from their online footprints. Reporting in 2025 revealed ICE adopted SocialNet — seeking about 100 licenses — to monitor sites ranging from Bluesky to pregnancy and gaming forums, prompting a Mozilla-led campaign urging platforms to block it.
◍ Hoover, AlabamaEst. 2016
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