What’s the Relationship?

You will learn:

The direct relationship between use of social networking and alcohol consumption patterns

How social networking has challenged law enforcement and ways to reduce these challenges.

How to stay current with networking sites and use them to share information about illegal activities.

Popularity of Social Networking Frequency of Use Privacy and Security Concerns Revealing of Personal Information Time Spent on Social Network Sites Most Popular Sites The Alcohol Factor

EDUCAUSE Center for Applied ResearchECAR Research Study 8, 2008

EDUCAUSE Center for Applied ResearchECAR Research Study 8, 2008

*Data are based on student responses from the 44 institutions that participated in each of the 2006, 2007, 2008 studies. Although the institutions remain the same, the actual students responding are different each year.

College student social networking users do not appear to be concerned about privacy and security: The younger the user, the less concerned ECAR Study showed about half of the respondents are at

least moderately concerned about privacy and security The lack of concern may relate to the lack of awareness

as to who is looking “Friends” extend to people whom they are not

particularly close to (friends of friends) Users over 25 years of age significantly tighten

the information provided and increase the use of privacy controls

User AgeInfo Type

18-19 20-24 25-29 30 and Over

Photos 91.1 87.7 81.4 65.4

E-mail or screen name 81.8 78.4 50.8 51.3

Last Name 81.3 80.2 45.6 35.2

Full Date of Birth 57.2 61.8 30.6 15.2

Work place 33.0 42.1 29.3 16.8

Cell Phone 19.6 22.2 8.0 3.0

Breaks and Holiday Plans 12.1 14.0 12.2 6.3

EDUCAUSE Center for Applied ResearchECAR Research Study 8, 2008

UserHours per week

18-19 years

20-24 years

25-29 years

30 years and older

All users

5 hours or less 42.5 62.3 70.2 74.7 55.8

6 – 10 hours 31.4 25.3 18.4 16.7 26.9

11 – 15 hours 10.6 6.1 5.3 4.3 7.7

16 – 20 hours 6.7 3.0 2.4 1.9 4.4

21 – 25 hours 3.0 1.3 1.2 1.1 1.9

26 – 30 hours 2.4 .6 1.2 .7 1.3

31 – 35 hours .5 .2 .2 .1 .3

36 – 40 hours 1.0 .5 .5 .2 .7

More than 40 hours 1.9 .4 .6 .4 1.0

EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research Based on study of 20,033 respondent'sECAR Research Study 8, 2008

1 | facebook2 - eBizMBA Rank | 550,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 3 -Compete Rank | 2 - Quantcast Rank | 2 - Alexa Rank

2 | twitter17 - eBizMBA Rank | 95,800,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 35 -Compete Rank | 7 - Quantcast Rank | 10 - Alexa Rank

3 | MySpace34 - eBizMBA Rank | 80,500,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 20 -Compete Rank | 25 - Quantcast Rank | 56 - Alexa Rank

4 | Linkedin47 - eBizMBA Rank | 50,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 61 -Compete Rank | 50 - Quantcast Rank | 29 - Alexa Rank

5 | Ning143 - eBizMBA Rank | 42,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 180 -Compete Rank | 120 - Quantcast Rank | 128 - Alexa Rank

6 | Tagged225 - eBizMBA Rank | 30,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 382 - Compete Rank | 151 - Quantcast Rank | 141 - Alexa Rank

7 | classmates228 - eBizMBA Rank | 29,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 487 - Compete Rank | *425* - Quantcast Rank | 969 - Alexa Rank

8 | hi5479 - eBizMBA Rank | 27,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 983 - Compete Rank | 392 - Quantcast Rank | 62 - Alexa Rank

9 | myyearbook617 - eBizMBA Rank | 12,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 522 - Compete Rank | 293 - Quantcast Rank | 1,036 - Alexa Rank

10 | Meetup635 - eBizMBA Rank | 8,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 644 - Compete Rank | 732 - Quantcast Rank | 528 - Alexa Rank

Most Popular Social Networking Websites Updated 3/1/2011

Percent reporting that:

Typical weekly time spent on online social

networks

0-1 hour

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1-5 hour

s

>6 hour

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They occasionally or frequently drank beer

44% 54% 56%

They occasionallyor frequently drank wine or liquor

48% 61% 65%

They had five or more alcoholic drinks in a row one or more times in the past two weeks

29% 40% 46%

First-year students who spent more time on social networking sites also reported partying more

These students also reported drinking more often

As reported in the High Education Research Institute –

September 2007 Research Brief

Recent examples Alcohol Connections and Community Impact Investigative Purposes Types of useable information available Conducting Searches – The basics Changing Environments

18 Tewksbury teens charged at Hampton drinking partyThe Lowell SunUpdated: 02/28/2011 01:13:30 PM EST

A photo taken from the Facebook page of one of the Tewksbury teens arrested in Hampton, N.H., early Thursday morning shows youths drinking beer at a New Year's Eve party. The Sun has obscured their faces. (FACEBOOK PHOTO)Sun Staff Report HAMPTON, N.H. -- Eighteen Tewksbury teens must appear in a New Hampshire court next month after they were arrested at an underage drinking party early Thursday morning near Hampton Beach, authorities said. Hampton police say they were called to a 202 Ashworth Ave. home shortly after midnight Thursday morning for a report of disorderly conduct. When they arrived, police found several youths who appeared to be intoxicated and

carrying containers of alcohol, and who were being loud. Officers spoke with some of the youths and determined that all were younger than 21, the legal drinking age, and all had either alcohol in their possession or had been drinking alcohol. Police arrested 19 people and charged 17 with unlawful possession (of alcohol) or intoxication, according to the police. Two of those at the party were taken into protective custody. The people arrested were ages 16 to 19. All but one of the teens are from Tewksbury, according to police. All those arrested have an arraignment date of March 16.

Read more: http://www.lowellsun.com/ci_17489909#ixzz1HBHfr8ZA

It has become increasingly common for colleges and universities to use Facebook to investigate underage drinking and violations of dry campus policies

Students who violate these policies may be discovered through photographs of illicit drinking behavior, membership in drinking-related groups, or party information posted on the Facebook website

Source: Wikipedia

According to CBS News, a 19-year-old Florida mother faced legal trouble after she posted a Facebook photo of her infant appearing to smoke out of a bong. The Florida Department of Children and Families launched an investigation and planned to drug test both the mother and child, despite the mother's protests that the photo was taken as a joke. The photo was sent to a local news station, which contacted the mother for a statement. "If u look at the picture u can see that there is no bowl in the TABACCO (sic) pipe," she wrote in a Facebook message to the news station. "And i took a pic to show one (expletive) person and it was a mistake. I would never ever ever let him get high." According to the Palm Beach Post, the mother is "facing one count of possession of drug paraphernalia, a first-degree misdemeanor."

College student Adam Bauer, 19, accepted a Facebook friend request from an attractive girl that he didn't know, then, shortly after, found himself hit with underage drinking charges. "An officer laid out photos from Facebook of Bauer holding a beer — and then ticketed him for underage drinking," reports the La Crosse Tribune, which adds Bauer "was among at least eight people who said Wednesday they had been cited for underage drinking based on photos on social networking sites."

Unofficial St. Patrick’s Day

Originally created by a bar owner

With controls was taken out of that environment and became a private party event

Social Networking used to promote the event.

2011 – Over 23000 committed to attend on one web site.▪ Difficulty in determining who is promoting the event

▪ Lack of direction and many conflicts leading up to event

Bin Laden Bar Crawl

Upon the death of Bin Laden students organized a celebratory bar crawl via social networking

Within in 3 days they had 3000 people committed to participating

Flew under the radar of law enforcement until it was too late to put something together

Patrol forced to deal with extra calls for service and issues related to overintoxication.

The National College Crawl Planned by students who had connections with

students in other colleges across the country▪ Was designed to be a charity based event

▪ Tee Shirts promoted excessive consumption

Planned involved a simultaneous bar crawl being held at participating campuses

9 colleges in 6 stateswith several thousand committed to attend

The event was stopped after designated beneficiary of the charity demanded that their name not be affiliated with the event.

Fool’s Fest -

Event created by 3 students under the guise of being a fundraiser

▪ Quickly grew to a large scale event. Over 10000 people indicted participation

▪ Budweiser got on board and then pulled out and told the students to take down the page after event appeared to be getting out of control.

Event did not happen after the page was pulled..

The posting of information via social networking has become a focus for law enforcement and has provide intelligence and in some cases as basis for arrests.

Background investigators are frequently using this source to determine the quality of a candidate.

Detect evidence of past and present crimes or crimes in progress

Detect violations of university or company policy Identify at risk youth - Cyber bullying Monitor social behavior Conduct counter intelligence Monitor gang and hate group recruiting / activity Monitor your own children’s activity Proactive policing of pedophiles Background Investigations for volunteers and

employees

Subject’s profile: Hometown

Relationship status

Religion

Employment

Place of birth

Age

Current location

Status...what have then been up to?

Interest statements / likes

Profile photos

Other Information: Who are they friends with

Event participation

Incriminating statements

Statements of others

Restricted contacts

Overall credibility

Last time they were online

Much more!!!

Photo’s posted on their own site and sites of their friends

There has been an ever increasing growth in sites that promote social events

Industry based

Community based

Student based

Examples

nationalcollegecrawl.com

barcrawls.com

Social Networking Sites

Looking up the profile

▪ Start with a general name or activity search

▪ If results are limited you may need to limit parameters based on privacy settings

▪ Email addresses may also be searched

▪ Be creative and think about different ways information may be entered

Social Networking Sites (cont):

Looking up the profile

▪ Areas of interest▪ The wall – a discussion string that provides information on

what the subject and their friends have been doing

▪ Subject’s Info – information on the subject which can be very detailed

▪ Notes – some applications load information into notes about the subject

▪ Friends – lists all linked friends of the subject, these people may be searched as well

Social Networking Sites (cont): Looking up the profile

▪ Areas of interest▪ Photo’s – This area can be revealing and surprising

Tagged photo’s

Illegal behaviors

Ability to make identifications

▪ Links – see what interests the subject may have based upon what sites they are linked to

▪ You ability is limited only by your level of curiosity and the level of privacy settings of your subject and their friends

The 4th Amendment protects Social network privacy

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2701 governs ability to disclose information

ECPA requires government process to release information including subpoenas, court orders and search warrants

Legal

Laws in the area have not kept up with the technology

Legal limitations are still be culled out by the courts

With the ever changing environment of social networking sites, legal issues continue to arise

This course is designed primarily as an introduction to social networking and it’s use in investigations Use resources available

▪ Fully trained law enforcement personnel

▪ University computer specialist

▪ Private businesses with an expertise in this area

To stay on top of these events you have to spend time looking

Social networking sites are typically free Your investment is your time If you are not sure about something, reach

out to sources that can help you Know your legal standing and stay abreast of

changes in the law

Sgt. Scott FriedleinChampaign Police Department82 East UniversityChampaign ILsafriedlein@gmail.com217-649-8390