License

IdentiScope is free software released under the GNU General Public License v3.0

IdentiScope is open-source software. You are free to use, study, share, and modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPL-3.0), published by the Free Software Foundation. This means any modified version you distribute must also be made available under the same licence. The full licence text is reproduced below.

Copyright © 2026 Kate Murphy, SETU Carlow, BSc (Hons) Cybercrime and IT Security.

Third-party Libraries & Licences

Library Licence Use
Flask BSD-3-Clause Python web framework: routing, session, request handling
requests Apache-2.0 HTTP client: Apify scraper API, Twitter OAuth token exchange
python-dotenv BSD-3-Clause Loads environment variables from .env file
pymongo Apache-2.0 MongoDB driver: audit log, scan reports, alerts
transformers (HuggingFace) Apache-2.0 ML sentiment analysis and irony detection models
cardiffnlp/twitter-roberta-base-sentiment-latest MIT Pre-trained sentiment model fine-tuned on Twitter data
cardiffnlp/twitter-roberta-base-irony MIT Pre-trained irony/sarcasm detection model
Apify (apidojo~tweet-scraper) Commercial (SaaS) Twitter/X public data scraping (external API service)

Data Sources & References

  • Wordlists informed by CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection), Barnardos.ie, and SafeCallNOW research
  • Risk scoring methodology draws on the NSPCC's online safety research and the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) taxonomy
  • Privacy guide content sourced from official platform help pages, CyberSafe Kids (cybersafekids.ie), and Barnardos.ie
  • Demo profile images generated by thispersondoesnotexist.com. AI-generated faces, not real people.
  • Demo profiles are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real persons or accounts is coincidental.

GNU General Public License v3.0: Full Text

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