Economic development asks the researcher to scrape every LinkedIn connection of a chamber volunteer who is a private citizen. What collection scope fits civic OSINT?
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Short Explanation
Need-to-know still applies when the source is a public profile. Grab the fields that answer the civic question, not the volunteer's entire Christmas-card list. Hoarding a private citizen's network is not the job.
Full Explanation
Civic OSINT collection should stay scoped to public fields that answer the authorized question. Scraping a private citizen's full connection graph for a standing dossier exceeds a typical municipal need. Friend requests from real staff accounts and purchased unpublished-contact dumps are not public-source methods. Scope discipline is part of ethical social-media OSINT.