NCMEC CyberTipline: Intelligence Source Guide
The CyberTipline is the statutory funnel through which US service providers report apparent child sexual exploitation. Its published statistics are...
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Internet Watch Foundation: Intelligence Source Guide
The IWF is the UK's hotline and assessment body for child sexual abuse imagery, and the operator of the industry...
INTERPOL ICSE / Crimes Against Children: Intelligence Source Guide
INTERPOL's International Child Sexual Exploitation database is the global victim identification system, accessible only to specialist investigators in connected countries....
INTERPOL Stolen Works of Art: Intelligence Source Guide
INTERPOL's Stolen Works of Art database holds descriptions and images of almost 57,000 objects, entered only by national central bureaux...
Art Loss Register: Intelligence Source Guide
The Art Loss Register is a private London company operating the largest commercial database of stolen, missing and disputed art,...
Event / Incident: Data Point Intelligence Guide
An event is where every other data point converges: a time, a place, a set of actors, and the messy...
Messaging Handle: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A messaging handle outlives phone numbers, domains and marketplaces. It is the thread that ties an operation together across years...
Real Property / Parcel: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Property is the asset that cannot be moved offshore overnight. Deeds, charges and valuations leave a permanent, dated, jurisdictional trail....
Court Case / Docket: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Court records are the only open dataset where an adversary is compelled to describe their own conduct under oath. Analysts...
Image / Photograph: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Every photograph makes two claims: this is what it shows, and this is where and when it was taken. Both...
License Plate: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A plate identifies a registration, not a person and not permanently a vehicle. It is the most privacy-loaded identifier most...
Shipment / Bill of Lading: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A bill of lading names the shipper, the consignee and the goods on the same page. It is the closest...
HS Commodity Code: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Six digits decide the tariff, the licence and the level of scrutiny. Getting them wrong is how controlled goods travel...
Satellite Imagery: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Overhead imagery does not tell you what happened. It tells you what changed between two dates, and the analyst supplies...
Facility / Site: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A facility is where corporate paper meets physical reality. Registries tell you who claims the site; the ground truth tells...
Location / Coordinates: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A place name is not a point. It is a claim about where something happened, carrying a resolution, a source...
Bank Account / IBAN: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Money leaves a trail in fixed-width fields. An IBAN names the country, the institution and often the branch before you...
Sanction / Watchlist Entry: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A sanctions hit is not an answer. It is a name, a legal basis and a programme code telling you...
Transaction Hash: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A transaction hash is the one financial record that is permanent, publicly verifiable and impossible for the counterparty to alter...
Cryptocurrency Address: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A blockchain address is a pseudonymous account with a permanent, public and complete transaction history. That combination makes it the...
Corporate Filing: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Filings are where organisations say things under legal obligation, on the record and with a date. That combination is rare...
Legal Entity Identifier: Data Point Intelligence Guide
The LEI is the closest thing global finance has to a universal entity key, and unusually for identity data it...
Company / Organization: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Companies are how money, liability and control get organised. Follow the entity and you find the people who preferred not...
Biometric Identifier: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Biometrics are the only identifier a person cannot change after it leaks. That single property should govern every decision you...
Social Profile: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A social profile is a persona's self-published intelligence report. The metadata around it is usually more truthful than anything written...
