Data breaches have flooded the dark web with information of immense public interest.
A new guide from Humber College’s Storylab, @Humber_Research, shows how to use OCCRP's @alephdata to navigate dark web data dumps safely & effectively.
Your FREE copy: humberstorylab.ca/projects/g…
A reminder our annual Aleph survey is out now. We’d love your input. The more responses we have the better informed we can be when determining what we do. We would really appreciate your help. forms.gle/LX5G6TCntu13nBgb6
Hey everyone. We wanted to provide an update on what the Aleph team have been up to lately. Take a look at our Q2 update on our Discourse server here: aleph.discourse.group/t/alep…
Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich’s unprecedented spending at @ChelseaFC ushered in a new era of big money in European football.
Now leaked documents in #CyprusConfidential raise questions about how Abramovich bankrolled Chelsea’s success.
Our Head of Research & Data explains.
The Aleph team are looking for an Elasticseach consultant to work with the team on improving search efficiency in Aleph.
If you are interested check out the role here: occrp.org/en/occrp-jobs/elas…
We still have some availability for our Aleph community meetup in Berlin on May 22nd, if you run or work with Aleph we'd love to see you. If you want to sign up you can do so here: forms.gle/gWjXnMrcdPC32qgv7
The Aleph team are having their annual community meetup on Monday 22nd of May and we'd love for you to come along. If you are interested please fill out this form to let us know: forms.gle/1yaNiERJQPC17mra6
The German Transparenzregister (UBO registry), which had more holes than a Swiss cheese in the first place, now stopped answering requests entirely. Thanks, @EUCourtPress! (Via @stephen_abbott)
OCCRP's data team has spent years gathering vital company ownership data in Aleph aleph.occrp.org. If you work in investigative journalism tracking down companies, people or assets, apply to be a Friend of OCCRP for access: bit.ly/Friends_OCCRP
Investigative journalism suffered a blow last week after the European Court of Justice struck down a key tool in the fight against corruption — public access to company ownership information.
Here’s why “ultimate beneficial ownership” data is so critical👇occrp.org/en/beneficial-owne…
there are few things that could possibly get me to write some tweets, let alone a tweet thread, but this exciting news definitely counts:
.@suryamattu and I are starting the Digital Witness Lab, a research lab hosted at @PrincetonCITP!
digitalwitnesslab.org/
this work is a culmination to the work i've done in the past at @FastForwardLabs@themarkup@OCCRP. i believe that we can never truly consent to digital platforms unless we understand how they work. getting to the data to support that is hard, but it has always been worth it.
We are trying to verify audio recordings for a story. If anyone has good input on text-independent speaker recognition (tools or reliable services) please share them with me! #OSINT
The Aleph team are pleased to announce the release of 3.12.7 which introduces improved custom environment variables and better status messages. Check it out:
docs.alephdata.org/developer…
The Aleph team is looking for a new Experienced Python Developer to join it's growing team at OCCRP. We'd love to have you come work with us. Applications are open now through the end of October:
occrp.org/en/occrp-jobs/expe…