Google, OSINT & EU regulation (issue 201)

In this issue, hear about what happened last week (22/09 - 05/10) in OSINT. We cover the latest tools, news, jobs, everything you need to stay ahead in the industry!

Hi everyone, OSINT Jobs team here. We’re happy to introduce the 201th edition of our weekly OSINT newsletter. This edition is a bit special because we are reworking our format: less noise, more concise reporting of the latest news & tips from the OSINT industry.

This week, we cover the deletion by Google of its EU political ad repository, EU chatbot regulation, OSINT guide for VK, a new pipeline to investigate war crimes, and more.

As always, we spent the week monitoring the latest developments in the industry so you don’t have to. In just 5 minutes of reading this newsletter, you spare yourself hours of scrolling on socials! Worth it, no?

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Google reportedly deleted its entire EU political ad archive, according to Liz Carolan. The Google Ads Transparency Center, which once gathered all records of political ads across 27 EU countries, now only lists a handful of non-EU countries, including the U.S., the UK, and India. Liz Carolan considers this an “erasure of our political past”, and warns that such loss of data undermines public accountability and historical understanding of political communication online. (Full declaration here)