[cirno]

> API, CLI & Web App for analyzing & finding a person's profile across +300 social media websites

> could help in investigating profiles related to suspicious or malicious activities such as cyberbullying, cybergrooming, cyberstalking, and spreading misinformation.

It will much more likely be used to aid cyberbullying and cyberstalking. Those types love digging for more information by finding their targets' profiles on other social media sites.

Those types of trolls are much more adept at using randomized usernames, disposable e-mail addresses, and VPN clients because they know what they're doing is potentially illegal.

[ttt0]

Lol, exactly. This is a doxxing tool, who do you think is going to use that?

[kube-system]

People who dox are doing to do it anyway. This tool will make it really easy for people to find holes in their own (or their organizations) presence.

[behnamoh]

Surely you don't expect ordinary people to "find holes in their [online] presence" using this tool...

This tool is recipe for stalking.

[EduardoBautista]

Honestly, searching for myself was the first thing that came to mind when I saw this. Although I might not be an "ordinary" person.

[jh86]

Would you also consider Google search a recipe for stalking? It provides a larger set of results, but you can easily narrow down your results to social media sites...

It’s a tool, much like a knife is a tool. They can be used for good or bad. The tool is indifferent.

[kortilla]

People who have something to be ostracized over do this all of the time. This tool is great for someone trying to hide something about their identity (e.g. being gay).

[1337shadow]

You can use it to find your own forgotten stuff, or on third parties for which you have approval (ie. security gig).

It is not the first tool in that spirit, there's a lot more available in Kali Linux for example, including Maltego.

[koolba]

Targeted enterprise sales^W^Wspam?

[majkinetor]

Exactly.

BUT, this may bring awareness to regular folks. You can also use it to remove your own stuff from said networks because people do not catalogue their online activity and it can be hard to remove your digital footprint.

[tantalor]

I'd pay for a service that would do this,

1. Find my digital footprints on social media

2. Compare that to my desired level of public activity, e.g., do not share photos of me

3. Provide tools to delete, scrub, send takedowns, etc.

[rolph]

4. template an online persona, and cede it across the web, create footprints use SEO type methods to promote a desired public image.

[badsectoracula]

4. Hope they don't keep their own backup copies for later use :-P

[gonehome]

There’s privacy duck and delete me, but they’re mostly focused on the scammier public data collection sites where it’s harder to remove your information.

[ImprovedSilence]

Yup, I'm more curious to find out what I can find out about myself more than anything else.