> API, CLI & Web App for analyzing & finding a person's profile across +300 social media websites
> could help in investigating profiles related to suspicious or malicious activities such as cyberbullying, cybergrooming, cyberstalking, and spreading misinformation.
It will much more likely be used to aid cyberbullying and cyberstalking. Those types love digging for more information by finding their targets' profiles on other social media sites.
Those types of trolls are much more adept at using randomized usernames, disposable e-mail addresses, and VPN clients because they know what they're doing is potentially illegal.
Would you also consider Google search a recipe for stalking? It provides a larger set of results, but you can easily narrow down your results to social media sites...
It’s a tool, much like a knife is a tool. They can be used for good or bad. The tool is indifferent.
People who have something to be ostracized over do this all of the time. This tool is great for someone trying to hide something about their identity (e.g. being gay).
BUT, this may bring awareness to regular folks. You can also use it to remove your own stuff from said networks because people do not catalogue their online activity and it can be hard to remove your digital footprint.
There’s privacy duck and delete me, but they’re mostly focused on the scammier public data collection sites where it’s harder to remove your information.
> could help in investigating profiles related to suspicious or malicious activities such as cyberbullying, cybergrooming, cyberstalking, and spreading misinformation.
It will much more likely be used to aid cyberbullying and cyberstalking. Those types love digging for more information by finding their targets' profiles on other social media sites.
Those types of trolls are much more adept at using randomized usernames, disposable e-mail addresses, and VPN clients because they know what they're doing is potentially illegal.