Absolutely. We have to keep in mind that we're police, so we're investigating criminals most of the time. We do also investigate missing people and things like that. If we are investigating criminals, then likely they're not going to want to use their real identities when they're registering for various services, especially if they're going to be committing crimes online.
As this is the case, some of the time we have to use other ways to identify the people who could potentially be behind whatever crime we're investigating. We may be asking for information that very much differs from service provider to service provider. We don't know exactly what is required to create each account or whether there are monikers that can be created and associated with a name that has been associated with the creation of the account. Somebody may have multiple accounts associated with a particular name, whether they're called handles or whether they're temporary or permanent and things like that.
This is information that can be provided to police, which can help them link these individuals to other platforms and to previous registrations in other places. Those police officers can then continue with additional judicial authorizations to obtain additional information.