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Surveillance and falsification implications for open source intelligence investigations

Surveillance and falsification implications for open source intelligence investigations contributed articles DOI:10.1145/ 2699410 Legitimacy of surveillance is crucial to safeguarding validity of OSINT data as a tool for law-enforcement agencies. BY PETRA SASKIA BAYERL AND BABAK AKHGAR for Open Source Intelligence Investigations or OSINT, has become a permanent fixture in the private sector for assessing consumers' product perceptions, tracking public opinions, and measuring customer loyalty.12 The public sector, and, here, particularly law-enforcement agencies, including police, also increasingly acknowledge the value of OSINT techniques for enhancing their investigative capabilities and response to criminal threats.5 OSINT refers to the collection of intelligence from information sources freely available in the public OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE, COM MUNICATIO NS O F TH E AC M | AU GU ST 201 5 | VO L . 5 8 | NO. 8 Surveillance and Falsification Implications domain, including offline sources (such as newspapers, magazines, radio, and television), along with information on the Internet.4,16,17 The spread of social media has vastly increased the quantity and accessibility of OSINT sources.3,11 OSINT thus complements traditional methods of intelligence gathering at very low to no cost.4,15 OSINT increasingly supports the work of law-enforcement agencies in identifying criminals and their activities (such as recruitment, transfer of information and money, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Communications of the ACM Association for Computing Machinery

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Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Copyright
Copyright © 2015 by ACM Inc.
ISSN
0001-0782
DOI
10.1145/2699410
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contributed articles DOI:10.1145/ 2699410 Legitimacy of surveillance is crucial to safeguarding validity of OSINT data as a tool for law-enforcement agencies. BY PETRA SASKIA BAYERL AND BABAK AKHGAR for Open Source Intelligence Investigations or OSINT, has become a permanent fixture in the private sector for assessing consumers' product perceptions, tracking public opinions, and measuring customer loyalty.12 The public sector, and, here, particularly law-enforcement agencies, including police, also increasingly acknowledge the value of OSINT techniques for enhancing their investigative capabilities and response to criminal threats.5 OSINT refers to the collection of intelligence from information sources freely available in the public OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE, COM MUNICATIO NS O F TH E AC M | AU GU ST 201 5 | VO L . 5 8 | NO. 8 Surveillance and Falsification Implications domain, including offline sources (such as newspapers, magazines, radio, and television), along with information on the Internet.4,16,17 The spread of social media has vastly increased the quantity and accessibility of OSINT sources.3,11 OSINT thus complements traditional methods of intelligence gathering at very low to no cost.4,15 OSINT increasingly supports the work of law-enforcement agencies in identifying criminals and their activities (such as recruitment, transfer of information and money,

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Communications of the ACMAssociation for Computing Machinery

Published: Jul 23, 2015

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