Abstract
Whether individuals and organisations are ready for it or not, new opportunities and challenges presented by open source information from a variety of sources are something we must face now and in the future. It should be understood that this vast volume of online open source information allows anyone, for better or for worse, to become an investigator. What they choose to investigate could range from war crimes in a far-away country, to SWAT teams on their doorstep, and awareness of this behaviour is crucial in so many different ways. There are also many new tools being developed for those individuals and organisations in the public and private sphere that are aimed at aiding the process of open source investigation, be it for discovering information in the first place, or organising the information that’s discovered in a more accessible fashion. This chapter describes current cases of OSINT use by non-LEA (citizen) actors including their tools and techniques.
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Higgins, E. (2016). A New Age of Open Source Investigation: International Examples. In: Akhgar, B., Bayerl, P., Sampson, F. (eds) Open Source Intelligence Investigation. Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47671-1_12
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