By Bob Denaro (KPM) @ the BDG Training Team · July 2026 Repeated or systematic online monitoring of a person or group can amount to directed surveillance requiring RIPA authorisation, even when the information is publicly available. Open source intelligence (OSINT) and Internet Intelligence & Investigations (3III) cover the use of internet resources to gather information, intelligence and evidence, including overt and covert tactics to access closed areas, gather metadata, an