OSINT Education Spotlight: Purchase of Commercially Available Information (CAI)

A collection methodology that involves acquiring information, including intelligence, from a variety of commercial sources. OSINT organizations must leverage existing authorities when acquiring CAI that supports their assigned missions, functions, and tasks. OSINT organizations must establish information handling practices in line with statutory and policy data governance frameworks appropriate to their mission area and based upon their authority for access or collection, the type of data sought, the collection mechanism, and the purpose and use of the data. CAI excludes proprietary information not available for purchase by the public. Examples of the purchase of CAI range from simple acquisitions like books or maps from a bookstore, to online subscriptions for periodicals, to the acquisition of specific data sets or services.

See the OSINT Collection Methodologies Document for more details here: https://lnkd.in/efURxev9