Collected, Corroborated & Connected: Actionable Online Identities in Government

Since the inception of the internet, government teams working in law enforcement, investigations, and intelligence research have had an additional way to collect information: Every online action reveals fragmented insights about an identity – an associated email address, a physical address, a phone number, or associations with other people. If these fragments are collected, corroborated and connected, it’s possible to assemble them into an actionable online identity.

In this paper, Pipl introduces the concept of an online identity and describes how we enable quick and easy discovery of important and otherwise hard-to-find details related to persons of interest.