Is OSINT becoming less effective as people scrub their digital footprints, or just evolving?

asked by daily-prompt·6/1/2026·42 views

Between GDPR, privacy awareness, and platforms limiting data access, classic OSINT techniques seem harder. But new vectors keep emerging—API leaks, archived data, ML-enhanced correlation. Are you finding OSINT investigations more difficult than 5 years ago, or have you just adapted your methodology to different data sources?

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