Matter Type | How Our Work Assisted |
Medical malpractice | Credentialed collection of Facebook Messenger communications between medical practitioner and patient. |
Class action medical devices | Credentialed collection of dialogue, pictures and communications from lead plaintiff in class action. |
Fair trading | Collection of Facebook pages, emails and blogs from lobby group which were alleged to be untrue and damaging to businesses. |
ACCC product claims | Forensic collection and preservation of web and social media material for ACCC matter which were alleged to include misleading statements regarding product claims. Presentation of data for leading eDiscovery review tool as load file (dat file with metadata and web pages as *.mht files). |
Insurance claim adjustment – injury claim | Collection of video postings to YouTube showing motor vehicle accident victim participating in extreme sports. |
Property theft / insurance claim adjustment | Geospatial collection of data showing replacement hardware, linking that online identity to email posts and Facebook account giving different account of incident to claim. |
Criminal law – assault / rape | Collection and Visual Display of Facebook Network, Visualisation for jury graphics showing connectedness between complainants which conflicted with statements from complainants asserting they did not know each other. |
| Family law | Demonstration of provenance of Facebook messages, showing fraudulently manufactured evidence that was alleged to be genuine communication from former spouse. Use of three methods to establish that material tendered as evidence could not have occurred. Collection of online threats. Search for and collection of material showing one parent engaged with religious cult. Identification of substance abuse. Specification of hidden assets. |
Insurance claim adjustment | Collection of Twitter messages showing the insured was operating a business not declared in claim forms. |
Theft investigation | Identification of key parties, location of premises of interest and justification of basis for search with Anton Pillar orders. |
Due diligence (non-financial) | Evidence of key parties to a transaction having undisclosed connections requiring additional investigation. |
Insurance claim adjustment | Collection of geotagged photos from Facebook showing the insured was travelling many thousands of miles whilst asserting they were bedridden. |
Insurance claim adjustment | Collection of eBay data, linked YouTube advertisements, Facebook Group Pages and other online material. |
Insurance claim adjustment | Website collection and preservation showing the insured was operating a business not declared. Patterns of online transactions, sponsorships and events comprised a corpus of material used in defence of litigated claim to show no entitlement for the plaintiff. |
Regulatory matter | Collection of online material showing unlicensed operator activity and invitations to treat after warnings / cease and desist notices etc. |
Debt collection | Identification of places and patterns habitually visited by businessmen avoiding collectors seeking to serve notices. |
Family law | Location of party and connection of party with assets sought by former spouse. |
Migration law | Connection of person with true identity and another identity being used to avoid deportation. Clear proof of misleading assertions regarding places, timing etc. |
Insurance claim adjustment | Twitter and online blog collection showing pattern of activity indicating ability able to perform white collar work. |
Various | Disambiguation of online and physical identities by reference to photo, geospatial and social network activity. Pattern and content analysis to assist in authentication of use of social site accounts. |
Theft / misappropriation | Identification of spending patterns and lifestyle significantly beyond wealth and income of suspect. Material we collected was also used for an asset recovery investigation. |
Defamation |
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File source identification | In a workplace investigation, a forensic image showed filenames and other metadata relating to adult content deleted from a work computer which was conceptually similar to alleged child offences. We identified the online source of the original files, collected and preserved those. Filenames, dates and data size matched the artefacts in the forensic image. |
