Abstract
This chapter highlights ongoing research towards improving current public perceptions of UK policing OSINT. The work aims to evaluate contemporary public misconceptions, exaggerations and under-acknowledgements of modern investigations and surveillance. In this sense the chapter is primarily qualitative building on existing literature that has focused specifically on the practicalities and various technical facets of modern OSINT usage. The chapter’s positions contribute to the increasingly complex and diversified field of modern OSINT by highlighting public concerns and counter-narratives to the reactive and proactive benefits, in particular through concerns of disproportionality, transparency, misuse and accountability.
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Notes
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European Parliaments Privacy Platform, Policy Meeting Minutes. Available at: https://www.ceps.eu/sites/default/files/events/2011/10/Prog6299.pdf.
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Taken from RepKnight Official Facebook. Available at: https://www.facebook.com/RepKnight/info?tab=page_info (Accessed online: 19/05/2016).
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Ibid.
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Ibid., p. 3.
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Ibid., p. 28.
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Wells, D. (2016). Taking Stock of Subjective Narratives Surrounding Modern OSINT. 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_5
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