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Investigating Visual Media
Image Research Metadata Verification
More than Meets the Eye: Geolocating Images Using Creativity and SunCalc
Geolocation means finding the real world location of an object,
such as the place where a photograph...
Access to information Money and Politics
Data Research
The Savvy Investigator’s Toolkit
The Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) has been
developing a massive list of online reso...
Access to information Safety
Verification Data Mapping Metadata Research
Exposing the Invisible - The Kit
The Kit is a collaborative, self-learning resource that makes
investigative techniques and tools use...
Access to information Money and Politics Safety
Research
Investigate - The Manual
Launched by the Civil Forum for Asset Recovery (CiFAR) in June
2021, "Investigate - The Manual" is ...
Access to information Money and Politics
Research
Follow the Money: A digital guide for tracking corruption
Investigative reporter Paul Radu reveals his methods of tracking
corruption and organised crime by "...
Safety Access to information
Quick Guide to Alternatives
When you use a tool, your data land ups with the company that owns
that tool. The only way to really...
Money and Politics
Research
The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance
Brett Scott, publisher of Heretic's Guide to Global Finance,
describes his work as a "friendly guide...
Access to information Conflict and Power
Research
The Info-Activism How-To Guide
A comprehensive tool by Tactical Tech to teach activists the basics
of evidence-based activism.
Money and Politics Conflict and Power
Research
FAIR Legal Guide for Investigative Journalism
Based on English law and written by British lawyer Korieh Duodu,
the guide aims at helping investiga...
Access to information Investigating Visual Media
Data Research
Unlocking Data from PDFs
A deep dive on scraping and parsing, reverse engineering a digital
document to make the data in it m...
Access to information Safety
Me & My Shadow
A Tactical Tech website that allows you to trace your “digital
shadow” - all the data you disseminat...
Access to information Money and Politics Safety
Data journalism Investigative Art
Visualising Information for Advocacy: The Book
Tactical Tech's free online book about how advocates and activists
use visual elements in their camp...
Access to information Safety
Security in-a-box
Tactical Tech resources that show you how to remain anonymous
online, how to protect your data and c...
Mapping
Maps for Advocacy: A set of Tactical Tech tools
Created by Tactical Tech in 2008 and updated in 2010, the booklet demystifies the step-by-step proce...
Safety
Research
Dealing with Trauma
A list of helpful resources addressed to civil society members
facing stress, threat and trauma in t...
Data Data journalism Verification
School of Data: A series of tutorials on working with data
A project by the Open Knowledge Foundation teaching you all you
need to know about dealing with data...
Access to information Safety
Research
Domain Games: Role-playing an online identity
Guide featuring a step-by-step approach to setting up a new website
when privacy is a significant co...
Investigating Visual Media
Metadata Data Research Verification
Behind the Data: Investigating metadata
A guide that looks at how metadata has been used to expose, protect
and verify abuses and excesses o...
Safety Access to information
Research
Mobile Phone Security
Resources you can use to learn about phone security.
Investigating Visual Media
Mapping Satellite Imagery
Starting Satellite Investigations
In 2006, a group of Bahraini activists used Google Earth to view
palaces and land owned by the elite...
Research Investigative Art
Drone Survival Guide
A playful art project to inform citizens about the dangers and
capabilities of drones worldwide.
Investigating Visual Media
Investigative Art
DIY Drone Shadows
A handbook, in which author James Briddle gives guidance on how to draw a drone shadow, including ad...
Safety
ONO Robot's Guide to Staying Safe on the Internet
A Tactical Tech series of short animations featuring the character
ONO, a friendly robot whose missi...
Scraping Web Data
This guide presents a series of steps that can be used to automate the collection of online HTML tab...
Access to information
Research
Smart Searching with GoogleDorking
Using search engines to their full capacity to expose the unfindable.
Access to information
Metadata Research Data
Digital Resources for Citizen Investigators: Our recommendations
Many of us currently live and work in a challenging physical
isolation imposed on us by the COVID-19...
Safety Access to information
Research
Leak and Onion Soup
A guide about using Tor ("the onion router") to read, verify and
process leaked data, which might co...
Access to information Investigating Visual Media
Data Verification
Decoding Data
A selections of topics, approaches and ideas for those who are
thinking of getting better at working...
Access to information
Verification Metadata Research Data
Verification Handbook
A guide to verifying digital content and navigating today's
(dis)information environment.
Mapping Satellite Imagery Research
Geojournalism Toolkit
The Geojournalism Toolkit was born when a group of environmental
journalists felt a new approach was...
Money and Politics Access to information
An Idiot's Guide to Money Laundering
A tongue-in-cheek "Idiot's Guide to Money Laundering" created by
Global Witness, an organisation spe...
Investigating Visual Media
Research Verification Metadata
Digging into digital images: Extracting batch location data automatically
A how-to guide covering the basic steps for using open-source metadata extraction software on your d...
Verification
Who, what, why, where? Verification of online data
Misinformation can spread at a feverish pace and in this chapter we
will address the essential verif...
Safety
VPN Over Tor
Using VPN over Tor for a secure anonymous connection to the internet
Access to information
Metadata Research
Who is WHOIS?
To lookup where domain names are registered you can use a database
that stores the information of re...