Public-works staff want the legal name of a Reddit user who posted a photo criticizing a paving job. The civic need is to find the failed curb in the picture. What is in OSINT scope?
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Short Explanation
The job is to find the bad curb, not to hunt the person who took the snapshot. Treat the photo as a location problem and leave the critic's legal name alone. Doxing a resident who complained is not civic OSINT.
Full Explanation
Civic OSINT is scoped to the authorized public question—here, where the paving defect is—not to unmasking a critic. The photograph can be geolocated from unique curb details and other public frames without collecting the commenter's legal identity. Using real staff accounts to friend-request the user, or publishing their other handles, mixes retaliation with research and exceeds public-source purpose. Scope discipline is part of PORP ethics, not an optional courtesy.