This is the first case of its kind in UK criminal justice history. A Derbyshire officer allegedly used AI to fabricate evidential material across multiple cases not one. The Crown Prosecution Service is now reviewing every conviction those cases touched. Three days ago, the UK government announced PoliceAI. £140 million. a national AI centre for policing. 40 new facial recognition vans. AI tools for every force in England and Wales by 2027. the official goal: "get responsible AI into the hands of officers." Three days later: criminal investigation into an officer for using AI to manufacture evidence. the interim director of PoliceAI put out a statement today. "our work is rooted in transparency." 97% of all criminal investigations in the UK now involve digital evidence. that's this year's figure. AI is already being used to summarise case files, triage evidence, and assist with disclosure. one officer already used it to manufacture evidence across multiple cases. nobody noticed until now.

Apartheid South Africa and Nazi Germany needed compliant judges to provide a legal veneer to their darkest crimes. Judge Johnson joins their wretched company. He overturned a jury's conviction of four anti-genocide activists for criminal damage and sentenced them as terrorists instead. As one their barristers pointed out, the four defendants were initially arrested by police on suspicion of involvement in an act of terrorism. But the prosecution decided not to charge them with terrorism offences because it knew no jury would ever convict them based on the evidence. Instead the Crown held two trials: a sham one for the jury, and the real one conducted in secret by the judge. That is not justice. It is a show trial worthy of the worst tyrannical regimes.

XQuick Over 40 online tools for gathering information from X and other social media platforms. Can be used as an MCP server. dashboard.xquik.com/ #socmint #twitter Tip by @the_OSINT_rack

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🎥 A Client Question Worth Sharing: How to Download a Video from Threads A subscriber reached out this week with a problem: our Forensic OSINT Video Downloader supports most major social platforms, but Threads isn't one of them yet. They had a video they needed to preserve — and couldn't wait for us to ship support. So we walked them through a manual workaround using nothing but Chrome. Sharing it here in case anyone else is in the same spot. We're always here to help our subscribers, whether the tool covers it or not. ⚙️ 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄 — 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝟮𝟬 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱𝘀: 1️⃣ Open the Threads post in Chrome. 2️⃣ Open DevTools → three-dot menu → More tools → Developer tools (or F12). 3️⃣ Go to the Network tab, click the Media filter. 4️⃣ Reload the page (Ctrl R). Network only captures requests made after it's open. 5️⃣ A single .mp4 file will appear. That's it. 6️⃣ Click the file name to open the raw video in a new tab. 7️⃣ Right-click → "Save video as..." Done. ✅ No extensions, no sketchy third-party sites, no malware risk. ⚠️ 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗮𝘁: This gets you the file. That's it. No chain of custody, no timestamp, no hash, no proof of where it came from or when. For personal use, fine. For an investigation, not enough. 🛡️ 𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗱, 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲: 🔐 Hash the file immediately (SHA-256). Windows: Get-FileHash video.mp4. Mac/Linux: shasum -a 256 video.mp4. 📝 Document contemporaneously — write notes as you go, not after. Capture full URL, date/time with timezone, username, post ID, view count. 📸 Screenshot the page, the DevTools Network panel showing the .mp4 request, and the source URL bar. 💻 Note your environment — browser version, OS, your name, reason for capture. 🗂️ Preserve the original untouched. Work from copies. Done right, this gives you a defensible record proving how the video was obtained and that it hasn't been altered since capture. ⏱️ But it's manual, error-prone, and time-consuming. Miss a step and the evidence may not hold up. 🎯 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗽 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗩𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 𝗗𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀. Every download generates a Video Evidence Continuity Report — a single-page, digitally signed and timestamped PDF including: 👤 Who captured it, what, when, and how 🔗 Full source URL and platform metadata #️⃣ SHA-256 hash of the video file 🖼️ 10 screen captures from the video as a visual reference 🕓 Trusted timestamp anchoring the exact capture moment Everything needed to establish authenticity and chain of custody — automatically, every time. We support most major social platforms, and Threads is on the roadmap. Until then, follow the manual steps above. For everything else, let us handle it.

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There appears to have been some big changes on the Google Advanced Search Page, but it does seem, that for now at least, that the other search filters, such as intitle: & inurl: etc are still working #OSINT

OSINT Cabal Live Center Online versions of popular command line OSINT tools: Ghunt, Holehe, BlackBird and others. osintcabal.org/livecenter/ #osint #socmint

🔍New Phone Module : Line (Thailand only) Retrieve the name, profile image, bio and more. For now only working on Thai user base (Thai number) which is 54 millions monthly active users (~80% of Thailand pop) osint.lolarchiver.com #OSINT #SOCMINT t.me/LolArchiverChat

Google Maps knows where you live. Google Maps knows where you work. Google Maps knows the doctor you visited on Tuesday. Google Maps knows the bar you went to on Friday. Google Maps knows how long you spent at your ex's apartment. Every route. Every store. Every restaurant. Timestamped. Logged. Forever. On November 14, 2022, Google was caught tracking users who had explicitly turned off location history. They paid $391.5 million to settle with 40 US state attorneys general. The largest internet privacy settlement in American history. Then in September 2023, California fined them another $93 million for the same thing. You are not using a free map app. You are wearing a tracking device that happens to give directions. On December 20, 2020, two developers named Alexander Borsuk and Viktar Havaka walked out on their employer. They had spent years building a maps app called MAPS.ME on top of OpenStreetMap data. The owner had pushed a closed-source build that broke the community's trust. They forked the project the same day. They registered organicmaps.app the next morning. They started over. It is called Organic Maps. Six years later, six million people use it. → Full offline maps. Download a country once. No internet needed. → Turn-by-turn voice navigation for walking, cycling, and driving. → Hiking trails, cycling routes, contour lines, elevation profiles. → Public transport and subway maps for major cities. → Wikipedia articles for places of interest baked in. → Bookmarks and GPX tracks for travelers. → Dark mode. Offline search. Battery sipping by design. → iOS, Android, F-Droid, Huawei AppGallery. → No GPS data sent anywhere. Your location stays on your device. → No ads. No tracking. No analytics. No account. No phoning home. Verified by the Exodus Privacy Project: zero trackers, zero spy permissions. Verified by TrackerControl on iOS: same result. Auditable on GitHub. Not a marketing claim. Here is the wildest part: The whole thing runs on donations. The servers are donated by Mythic Beasts, an ISP that gives them 400 terabytes of bandwidth every month for free. 44 Technologies in Vietnam donates a dedicated server worth $12,000 a year so Southeast Asia downloads maps fast. NLnet handed them a European Commission grant to improve search and fonts. 100 contributors wrote 1,500 commits in 2025 alone. None of them got paid. 10 petabytes of map data served in 2025. $0 revenue. $0 trackers. Google Maps: Free. Settled $484.5 million in tracking lawsuits. Apple Maps: Free. Still reports to Apple. Waze: Free. Owned by Google. Organic Maps: Free. Tracks nothing. Works offline. Forever. One honest flag: in April 2025, some contributors raised governance concerns and forked a sister project called CoMaps. Both apps are alive. The privacy crowd watches both. 13,963 stars. 1,397 forks. Apache 2.0. But DO NOT install Organic Maps. We should all keep letting Google track where we sleep.

✅“La gente cree que el cifrado de WhatsApp lo hace imposible de espiar. Pero si comprometen tu PC, no necesitan romper el cifrado… simplemente ven tus mensajes ya abiertos, igual que tú” #Whatsapp #Linux #Windows #нюдсочетверг #altın #TVKVijay‌HQ #Hantavirüs #پاک_افواج_بنیان_مرصوص #spotify #Apple #PlanetaAlofoke #Pivoting

It is hard to denounce China's Great Firewall when European politicians are preparing to demand the same thing. It always starts with a call to protect children. But it ends with adults needing permission to share their political views. Embarrassingly short sighted.

Open Registry Free online tool for searching info about companies in different countries 🇬🇧🇮🇹🇫🇮🇫🇷🇪🇸🇨🇭🇨🇦🇨🇿 MCP server with 27 tools that connects AI clients to the official registries of 27 countries. openregistry.sophymarine.com… #osint #corpint

I have created a new page on our OSINT / i3 website for Right Wing Social Media Sites at uk-osint.net/rightwingsocial…, with a few details and links, to try to help people understand these sites, which they may come across during an investigation

Love the Wayback Machine? ❤️ Here’s your chance to stand up for it 📣 When news can't be archived, we all lose part of the public record 🕳️📰 Tell major publishers: keep journalism in the #WaybackMachine. ✍️ Sign here: savethearchive.com/NewsLeade… This campaign is a project of @fightfortheftr ✊

RIP Ask Jeeves. The natural-language search engine founded in 1996 was rebranded as Ask in 2006, and officially shut down on May 1. Here are the Wayback Machine’s first and last captures of the site. When websites disappear, the historical record can disappear with them. The @WaybackMachine preserves that history – capturing the web so its past remains accessible. Explore 30 years of web history: web.archive.org #90s #90sNostalgia #WebHistory #WebDesign

UK lawyers sent a detailed 240 page report to the MET Police detailing War Crimes committed in Gaza by 10 British Nationals who have returned to the UK. The MET refused to prosecute. And THEY claim the streets are unsafe. I wonder why?