#search4faces

One photo, thirty minutes, and a fugitive who'd been hiding for three decades was back on the front page. That's what facial recognition does in a serious OSINT workflow — and that's also exactly why it scares regulators. Facial recognition is the loudest sub-discipline of IMINT (Imagery Intelligence) right now. Not …

VK still hands over more about its users than Facebook, X, or LinkedIn ever did. That hasn't really changed since 2014, despite a decade of half-hearted "privacy improvements." If a subject of your investigation speaks Russian — drafted into a unit near Donetsk, posting selfies from Mariupol, or running a fake person…