MUP goes social – to collect evidence online

Serbian police (MUP) have taken to browsing the internet's social networks in the hope of collecting evidence related to ongoing cases.

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Monday, 05.04.2010.

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Serbian police (MUP) have taken to browsing the internet's social networks in the hope of collecting evidence related to ongoing cases. This is according to MUP's High Technology Crime Department, who's chief says that "almost every criminal nowadays has a Facebook profile". MUP goes social – to collect evidence online The department's head, Dragan Jovanovic, says that other police forces explore the same possibilities of furthering their investigation, considering that "criminal communication has moved online". "Each person, a potential criminal, or a criminal that we are interested in, mostly has a Facebook account. Searching Facebook, looking at those profiles, you learn a lot about those people, you can use social engineering methods to find out about their habits and interests, the car they drive, where they vacationed, who their friends are, which club they support," explained Jovanovic. For police, this has little direct operative value, he continued, "but it does have indirect value". "We're there on these social networks, we often visit various sites and blogs, which spread different opinions that are of security interest to us, as police," Jovanovic said of his fellow MUP officers. "We look at what's happening there, we try to discover who's behind those ideas, and in case a serious crime takes place in that way, we react." Jovanovic said that his department also receives complaints from citizens related to identity theft, abuse of accounts and photographs on the internet, and various slander allegations.

MUP goes social – to collect evidence online

The department's head, Dragan Jovanović, says that other police forces explore the same possibilities of furthering their investigation, considering that "criminal communication has moved online".

"Each person, a potential criminal, or a criminal that we are interested in, mostly has a Facebook account. Searching Facebook, looking at those profiles, you learn a lot about those people, you can use social engineering methods to find out about their habits and interests, the car they drive, where they vacationed, who their friends are, which club they support," explained Jovanović.

For police, this has little direct operative value, he continued, "but it does have indirect value".

"We're there on these social networks, we often visit various sites and blogs, which spread different opinions that are of security interest to us, as police," Jovanović said of his fellow MUP officers.

"We look at what's happening there, we try to discover who's behind those ideas, and in case a serious crime takes place in that way, we react."

Jovanović said that his department also receives complaints from citizens related to identity theft, abuse of accounts and photographs on the internet, and various slander allegations.

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