friendsWe can’t read people’s minds, but we can read their social media posts. Social media posts can be insightful. With the prevalence of social media, people share a lot of information online making it easy to replicate a user’s profile…
Social media evidence can be quite helpful in ensuring successful court proceedings or investigations. Lawyers can share posts, images, videos, and active content in court to prove a case. However, defending it in court offers a major challenge, unlike other…
Written in Collaboration with Lauren Honhart President Lyndon Johnson signed the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) into law in 1966. Since then, the FOIA has provided the public with the right to request access to records from any federal agency….
The growth of social media has changed virtually everything, impacting human interactions in ways we couldn’t have imagined. It offers a platform for networking, social interactions, and marketing. Nowadays, lawyers and investigation teams use it to collect defensible social media…
Big Class? You Need a Scalable Investigation Class action cases can come with a lot of baggage. While normally, a regular case can have one or two plaintiffs, some class actions can have hundreds of plaintiffs with claims against a…
Written in collaboration with Jessie Murphy Disclaimer: The information provided by SMI Aware in the article below (How to Find Someone with an Alias) is for general informational purposes only. All information on this site is provided in good faith….
Defending against a class action personal injury lawsuit can be challenging. As information about the class action spreads, a domino effect of more and more claims could be filed. And the result can mean hundreds or even thousands of potential…
Meet Our Experts At SMI Aware, our Certified Social Media Investigation Experts (CSMIEs) are a vital part of our team.They meet rigorous certification standards and apply credible, repeatable, and unbiased search techniques, powered by our proprietary technology. What Are Certified…
Admitting social media evidence in court is not difficult, but it does require ethical considerations and prompt action. You need to ensure that you have: Verified the creation and ownership of the content with a witness, Collected and preserved the…
The Difference between the Deep and Dark Web The web is like an iceberg – at surface level, we can only see a small portion. But a much larger mass is concealed beneath the water, hidden from view. The web…