What We Do
Crowdsourcing OSINT to Find Missing Persons
Trace Labs is a catalyst for change in the missing persons industry. We provide a modern, cost-effective and transparent solution to a problem that is effecting families around the world.
Trace Labs is a catalyst for change in the missing persons industry. We provide a modern, cost-effective and transparent solution to a problem that is effecting families around the world.
Trace Labs provides crowdsourced open source intelligence to help with this situation. Read more about our Core Values.
Our Core ValuesWe crowdsource open source intelligence through both the Trace Labs OSINT Search Party CTFs and Ongoing Operations with our global community. Our volunteer intelligence analysts then triage the data collected to produce actionable intelligence reports on each missing persons subject. These intelligence reports allow the law enforcement agencies that we work with to see any new details required to reopen a cold case and/or take immediate action on a missing subject.
In order to continually improve our results, Trace Labs has partnered with some of the industry’s top OSINT experts to provide training for our community. Our community then gets to test these skills on real scenarios in our OSINT Search Party CTFs and Ongoing Operations initiatives.
Trace Labs is proudly raising awareness of the missing persons issue at a global level. We are doing this in partnership with law enforcement agencies around the world and in support of other non profit organizations.
At Trace Labs, we do not perform active collection of intelligence in any of our investigations. We do not theorize, speculate or actively get involved by going after bad guys. We only do OSINT to assist law enforcement agencies with their missing persons subjects. This means we passively collect the data that is generated by a subject for the sole purposes of providing this intelligence to the law enforcement agencies that we partner with to assist them so that they can pursue the appropriate course of action.
Trace Labs has coordinated OSINT investigations into missing persons cases from all around the world, assisting dozens of law enforcement agencies.
Trace Labs has run OSINT Search Parties internationally, bringing together thousands of skilled investigators, hackers, and enthusiasts to help find missing persons.
The Trace Labs community is always growing. Join our community in our public Discord group for daily discussions on all things OSINT.
Our valued sponsors have enabled us to grow and expand our mission with their continued support.
