Facebook Security

Professionally, we Private Investigators love that a great many people choose to participate in social media platforms like Facebook and to put all sorts of information up that is readily available to the public, like their photos, whereabouts, and relationships. It is very helpful information when we want to find someone, figure out if they are legitimately injured for their workman's compensation case, or figure out why they haven't been paying their bills.

Personally, we hope that you take a moment to review your settings and secure your information so that strangers cannot find out little details about you that could compromise your safety. So please, log into your Facebook account and do the following:

Secure your profile

• In the upper right corner of the page, click the down arrow
• Privacy Settings
• Change "public" to "friends" or "custom"
• You can modify your custom settings as you like

Review your "friends"

• At the top of the page, click your name to see your Profile
• Click the Friends photo box under your cover picture
• Delete anyone you do not know personally
• Delete anyone you no longer choose to keep contact with
• Delete anyone who may pose a threat to your safety 
• Note: Anyone you "unfriend" will NOT receive notification, and you can still phone them if you choose.

Secure your photos

• At the top of the page, click your name to see your Profile
• Click the Photos photo box under your cover picture
• Delete anything that no longer needs to be there
• If you organize your photos into Albums, you can change those security settings all in one click instead
  of individually for each photo.

Stough International is a full service protection and investigation firm offering services of the highest caliber to our clients in both the private and public sectors.

Social Media and Investigation

Your social footprint helps investigators know your patterns of behavior, closest confidants, places and persons of interest, and gives away little details about you that you may not have noticed you were exposing. A private investigator may look at the photos you post to see how active you are, and if that is counter to what you are claiming against injuries you sustained through workman's compensation.  

Utilizing Twitter and Facebook as sources of information is known as "open source intelligence," meaning no one owns the rights to the information as protected, if the information is unsolicited and unprotected by the user.

Source: Reading Eagle