With laws such as the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), designed to aide law enforcement and intelligence agencies to conduct electronic surveillance, the need to capture and provide a wide variety of communication logs and records, as well as analysis services, has steadily increased. The number of authorized wiretaps alone rose nationally to over 1,800 in 2008, resulting in over 4,000 arrests. The relationship between private telecommunications firms and law enforcement agencies is evolving rapidly, resulting in stronger partnerships and increased information and resource sharing. Telecommunication companies, wireless carriers, and internet service providers manage mountains of communications data on a daily basis, balancing the need for compliance with their responsibility to customer privacy. The new link between the telecommunications industry and law enforcement has required the creation of new engagement models to facilitate the rapid access to, fusion and analysis of communications data. There are already many examples of law enforcement organizations working in cooperation with the telecommunications industry.
With an ever increasing need for communication detail records and analysis, from both internal and external customers, telecommunications companies are adopting new and innovative solutions to satisfy these requests. From customer fraud analysis to criminal investigation support, the need to collect, fuse and analyse data has never been more important. However, most Call Detail Records (CDRs) , email transactions and IP network logs come in the form of thousands of rows in a table, and on the surface, provide little insight or intelligence. It isn’t until these raw data records are put into an analytical environment that their true value can be realized. Even then, the process of preparing, aggregating and analyzing this data can be a laborious and time consuming endeavour, often yielding no more than dots on a map. As a result, today analysts within the telecommunication industry face three major challenges:
With GeoTime’s 3D Time Viewer, communications event data can be simultaneously viewed by its geographical location, as well as when it occurred in time. This unique visualization technique provides an interactive and unobstructed view on activities that have taken place over time, showing not only the movements between communication events but also the links to other individuals involved in the communication.
GeoTime works with a wide variety of data types; easily aggregating multiple CDRs, email transactions, IP network logs, financial transactions, credit cards use, and more to provide a complete story of suspect behaviours, patterns, and actions. In addition GeoTime’s built-in visual annotation and reporting tools make producing actionable intelligence products faster. GeoTime at a glance: