FINRA BrokerCheck: Intelligence Source Guide
BrokerCheck is the public window onto the registration and disciplinary system every US securities broker and brokerage firm passes through....
Person / Name
OpenSecrets API: Intelligence Source Guide
OpenSecrets takes raw US federal campaign finance, lobbying and personal financial disclosure filings and codes them into industries, sectors and...
GovInfo / Official Gazettes: Intelligence Source Guide
GovInfo is the US Government Publishing Office's authenticated archive of federal publications - statutes, regulations, the Congressional record, court opinions,...
OCCRP Aleph: Intelligence Source Guide
Aleph is OCCRP’s search platform over investigative material - company registries, court files, procurement records, sanctions lists, gazettes and leaked...
LittleSis: Intelligence Source Guide
LittleSis is a free, editable database of relationships between powerful people, companies, agencies and non-profits, run by the Public Accountability...
CourtListener / RECAP: Intelligence Source Guide
RECAP is a free archive of United States federal court dockets and filed documents, built from copies contributed by people...
OpenCorporates: Intelligence Source Guide
OpenCorporates is the largest open database of companies, assembled by scraping and importing official registers across well over a hundred...
Open Ownership Register: Intelligence Source Guide
Open Ownership publishes the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard and an aggregated register expressing national declarations in it. It is the...
Freedom House Transnational Repression: Intelligence Source Guide
Freedom House maintains the reference case database of transnational repression: incidents in which a state reached across a border to...
Citizen Lab: Intelligence Source Guide
The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto publishes forensic investigations into mercenary spyware, censorship and app surveillance, usually with...
START Terrorism Research: Intelligence Source Guide
START at the University of Maryland publishes the Global Terrorism Database and a family of radicalisation datasets built by human...
InSight Crime: Intelligence Source Guide
InSight Crime is a non-profit newsroom and think tank covering organised crime in Latin America and the Caribbean, built on...
US State Dept TIP Report: Intelligence Source Guide
The annual Trafficking in Persons Report ranks nearly every country on a four-tier scale and attaches real consequences to the...
Polaris Project / Trafficking Hotline: Intelligence Source Guide
Polaris runs the US National Human Trafficking Hotline and publishes the typologies derived from it: the most detailed open account...
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....
Counter-Trafficking Data Collaborative: Intelligence Source Guide
CTDC publishes de-identified, case-level records of individual trafficking victims contributed by IOM, Polaris and partner organisations. It is the only...
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...
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...
National ID Number: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A national ID number is the closest thing that exists to a primary key for a human being. It is...
Device / Advertising ID: Data Point Intelligence Guide
An advertising identifier was designed to be a resettable, privacy-preserving marketing token. In practice it became one of the most...
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...
Physical Address: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A physical address is where the digital investigation touches the ground. It is also where thousands of shell companies quietly...
Phone Number: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A phone number is a globally routable identifier attached to a real contract and, increasingly, to every account a person...
Username / Handle: Data Point Intelligence Guide
People change platforms, phones and email providers. They almost never change the handle they picked at fifteen. That inertia is...
Email Address: Data Point Intelligence Guide
An email address is an account key, a routing instruction and a reputation record in one string. It is also...
