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.
SocialNet
Maps a person's whole online life across 200+ sources.
ShadowDragon's SocialNet links a target's accounts, contacts, aliases, and movements across 200-plus social-media, messaging, and dark-web sources into a single profile for police — surveillance assembled from a person's own digital footprint.
What it does
- ▸200+ source link analysis
- ▸Alias & account mapping
- ▸Relationship graphs
- ▸Location clues
Where it's deployed
- ◍Police & fusion centers (reported)
Agencies using it
Local LEDHS