Social media is the king of today’s world or you can say online world. SnapChat is one of the images sensing service which is widely used and popular among youths. Recently, it has released a new and unique feature known as “snap map”, which creates a great concern for the parents and child protection agencies. It helps in the monitoring movements, address and location of their friends that where the post is coming from.
It is the wide range of application which allows the monitoring of social networking users with accuracy and without the use of knowledge. Some of the applications of SnapChat have the ability to track individuals across other multiple social networking applications. It has become the part of people’s routine life. They share several different things about themselves and their surroundings. Social media has become important informational element in the electronic discovery. Important details about the activities are posted and updated based on their personal targets. These upload target the place and time by the contradictions created by their own statements.
There is an on-demand effort for the monitoring of proactive social media which is offered by Sunblock Systems. There is a hold by the new technologies which targets and simplifies investigations based on social-media blogs and websites. It includes:
- Continuous observation of social media activity
For any relevant and reliable activity performed on social media, automated tools and cloud infrastructure helps in the continuous monitoring of these activities. Within few second of posting, the uploaded data is permanently captured and preserved on the website or blog. - Capturing of invisible data
When the user deletes any data from his/her online stored data, it is possible to recover it by using social
media surveillance solution. It helps in the discovery of internal data which is invisible to a user through
normal websites, or which has been deleted by the user or suspect itself. - Forensic sound
Traditional electronic evidence keep all the data logged completely. With the help of relevant time stamps and
documentation, reports of a targeted activity are prepared which is easy to read.There are many other
applications which monitor social media. It aims at professional users including journalists, security forces
and marketers.
For the filtration of the content, monitoring of activities and author movements; various tools are used by the journalists on social networking websites. These applications are generally used for the verification which helps the journalists in the judgment of already posted accounts. These are considered as early warning systems by most of the journalists. They experiment these applications professionally
