EU: Statewatch Analysis: Spying in a see through world: the “Open Source” intelligence industry (pdf) by Ben Hayes: The Open Source Intelligence industry has grown rapidly over the past decade. Private companies free from the
EU: Statewatch Analysis: Spying in a see through world: the “Open Source” intelligence industry (pdf) by Ben Hayes:
The Open Source Intelligence industry has grown rapidly over the past decade. Private companies free from the privacy statutes that constrain state agencies are collecting data on a vast scale and the practice has been widely embraced by EU institutions and Member States:
“In the past few years, Open Source Intelligence has become the target of what could almost be described as infatuation in both the EU institutions
and many of its member states” – Compagnie Européenne d’Intelligence Stratégique (2008).