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I am astounded by what is feasible with OSINt - from tracking Vice Presidenal picks and billionaires jets to counting tanks destroyed. I don't really understan

I am astounded by what is feasible with OSINt - from tracking Vice Presidenal picks and billionaires jets to counting tanks destroyed. I don't really understand the Venn Diagram here with journalism, spying and democratic debate, but it's there. A cottage industry that I assume will explode into things like - Hiring background checks - consumer credit and counter party analysis - supply chain somethings (the old how many trucks left that depot last month tells you something valuable) Any other ideas ? Companies already springing up to do this?

Bayart 4y ago
The first uses I've seen from governments have see fast response task forces during disasters.
sleepdreamy 4y ago
How will hiring background checks move into a Cottage Industry? Isn't this already a business that is corporatized?
- lifeisstillgood 4y ago
  I suppose it depends how deep the rabbit hole goes. I am guessing that it started with random HR woman who looks up a candidates Facebook profile and sees loads of drinking images (cf Danish Prime Minister) But turn that into a small company that just looks for drinking references for New Yorkers at a certain age and can correlate to "unsafe drinking behaviour" - now the corporate background checks that once were just criminal record checks and university attendance can add a "gold" service - they are just getting a rating from a cottage industry provider now - but it's the same idea - count number of photos with a cocktail in hand. I am just putting it out there - it's just there are so many options. To a large extent monitoring and aggregating out behaviour is what "social media" advertising is - but the same thing is likely to find other commercial uses as well as the big fundamental society changing effect of all of us being able to monitor our behaviour - and do so in medical context - your behaviour monitored in the best interests of the patient. A Nanny State with your best interests at heart.

Bayart 4y ago

The first uses I've seen from governments have see fast response task forces during disasters.

sleepdreamy 4y ago

How will hiring background checks move into a Cottage Industry? Isn't this already a business that is corporatized?

lifeisstillgood 4y ago
I suppose it depends how deep the rabbit hole goes. I am guessing that it started with random HR woman who looks up a candidates Facebook profile and sees loads of drinking images (cf Danish Prime Minister) But turn that into a small company that just looks for drinking references for New Yorkers at a certain age and can correlate to "unsafe drinking behaviour" - now the corporate background checks that once were just criminal record checks and university attendance can add a "gold" service - they are just getting a rating from a cottage industry provider now - but it's the same idea - count number of photos with a cocktail in hand. I am just putting it out there - it's just there are so many options. To a large extent monitoring and aggregating out behaviour is what "social media" advertising is - but the same thing is likely to find other commercial uses as well as the big fundamental society changing effect of all of us being able to monitor our behaviour - and do so in medical context - your behaviour monitored in the best interests of the patient. A Nanny State with your best interests at heart.