Social media OSINT
Open-source intel pulls from your public posts, bios, and connections to triangulate where you live and work.
What this is
OSINT stands for open-source intelligence. It means piecing together public information to work out who you are, where you live, your schedule, and who's in your family. Most of it comes from social media. The rest comes from data brokers, public records, and other open sources.
On their own, a porch photo with a visible cross-street, a gym check-in, a tagged post at your kid's ballgame, a LinkedIn job entry, and a Facebook profile listing your spouse each mean little. Put together, they point to your home and the people in it.
Why first responders catch this more
You don't have to post anything sensitive to be exposed. A few ordinary posts over months add up, and someone willing to put in the time can usually connect them.
For undercover and federal officers, this goes past home safety. An old college tag, a sibling's photo that includes you, or a reunion post can link a current cover identity back to a real one.
What we do
We don't run your social accounts. That part is yours: tighten your privacy settings, turn off location tagging, take down geotagged photos, and ask family to remove tags of you.
What we handle is the broker side. Even after someone identifies you through social media, your home address usually still comes from a broker page. We file opt-outs across the data broker sites that carry it, we keep checking, and we refile when a listing comes back. Ongoing broker-side removal closes that part of the chain, and we tell you when a site needs something from you.