Scott Snide Investigations

05/28/2020

When seeing isn’t believing.....

In the months and years ahead, deepfakes threaten to grow from an Internet oddity to a widely destructive political and social force.

04/18/2020

Did you know that Facebook tracks you even when you’re not on Facebook? About a month ago, Facebook introduced what it calls Off-Facebook Activity settings. They share your data with hundreds of thousands of apps, websites, and other data services. These companies receives a steady stream of your information, such as where you go and what you do online. Follow the below steps to clear that history and to halt future collection activity.

Facebook home page > Privacy Shortcuts > View or clear out Off-Facebook activity > Manage Your Off-Facebook Activity.

03/13/2020

01/03/2020

Beware of scammers... Remember when writing out the date, there is a potential to change it on official & legal documents in a way that could negatively affect you and that document could be disputed. A scammer could easily change 01/03/20 to 01/03/2016 on your document which could nullify that agreement. Just write out 2020 to be safe.

The new year is giving scammers an easy way to forge documents, but you can protect yourself simply by writing out the full date.

11/08/2019

2019 NCAPI (North Carolina Association of Private Investigators) Fall Conference.

10/11/2019

This is the new modern criminal/stalker and a real security threat which should be taken seriously. Using victim and suspect photos, the investigator or criminal could identify an astounding amount of details, such as the photographer, additional witnesses/victims, additional suspects and crime scene locations through reflections and exif data. I haven’t heard of a successful use of information obtained via the pupil of the eye up till now but I guess in the age of advancing technology and higher resolutions, this is now a possibility. 

A Japanese man arrested on suspicion of stalking a female pop idol had looked at reflections of her pupils in photos she shared on social media and used Google Street View to find where she lived

09/22/2019

A good read worth a look

Hackers are increasingly targeting mobile users, with a series of attacks targeting smartphone carriers and software in recent months.

09/06/2019

With the rise of biometrics in most of our business and personal lives, what would happen if your fingerprints, facial points, iris scan and voice ID is stolen? It’s not like passwords that you can just change when hacked. If your biometric data points are stolen, someone could easily begin to access all of the different apps and devices that you've locked down with them and practically take over your identify. Read the article below.

Once the realm of science fiction, voice-mimicking software is now "well within the range of any lay criminal who's got creativity to spare,” one cybersecurity expert said.

07/26/2019

If you’re one of the 147 million Americans whose private information was compromised in the massive Equifax data breach, you could have some money coming your way.

Equifax might owe you money after its massive data breach. Here’s how to file a claim. Check your eligibility.

https://eligibility.equifaxbreachsettlement.com/en/eligibility

Then file a claim:
https://www.equifaxbreachsettlement.com/file-a-claim

07/18/2019

"Your face will most likely end up training some AI facial-recognition algorithm"

06/17/2019

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