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OSINT scraping

Social

Last reviewed: 2026-10-27Legal review: unverifiedCapability or investigative question
Evidence rule

This page is public-interest research. An argument grade is not a court finding. A watchdog page describes the device. It is not proof a Nevada agency bought it or turned a feature on. A product description is not a Nevada practice. Agencies are not merged: the City of Las Vegas Department of Public Safety, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, the Clark County School District, the City of Reno, and the Nevada Department of Public Safety stay separate. A hotlist hit is not a confirmed crime. Legal review of this page is unverified.

What it does

Open-source scraping copies large amounts of public web and social-media material into a searchable store. The material was posted or left public. The new fact is the bulk copy and the search across it. EFF describes tools that collect large sets of social-media data. A face company scraping photos is the face card, not this one.

Privacy watchdog concerns

  • Electronic Frontier Foundation. Social Media Monitoring. EFF says police use tools that search social media by keyword or hashtag, build profiles, and sometimes combine posts with face recognition. EFF says fusion centers have received social-media dossiers about protests. This is EFF’s claim. It is not a Nevada monitoring contract.

Constitutional issues

Unresolved question

First Amendment

Warrant practice not established for a Nevada agency

OSINT scraping: No Nevada scraping contract is documented. Reading a public page is not, on this record, the compelled disclosure NAACP decided. No holding is claimed.

Statutes attached to read, not findings.

  • NRS Chapter 239. Nevada public-records law is the route to ask for contracts, policies, and logs. Citing it is not a finding that a surveillance practice is unlawful.

Nevada use

Not documented on this page.

Capability only.

See also: Social-media monitoring; Clearview-type facial recognition

Next record

OSINT scraping: Keep photo scraping that feeds face recognition on the face card.

All devices. A document workflow for this page is not built. The arrest correction form is not a surveillance-document inbox. Corrections and source documents for this page follow the corrections policy. Corrections policy.