Mike Baker

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In today's Back of the Brief, I want to take a closer look at a little-known surveillance tool that's rapidly emerging as one of the intelligence community's most valuable sources of information.

For decades, intelligence agencies gathered information the old-fashioned way, right?

If agents wanted to learn more about a potential terrorist or a spy or a criminal network, well, they often had to rely on intercepted communications, surveillance operations, recruited assets, informants, and usually a mountain of investigative work.

Those tools have not gone away.

They are still critically important.

But according to a new study, intelligence services are increasingly turning to something much simpler.

They're buying the data, data that's often collected by private companies in the course of everyday business.

The findings come from a study published by Interface, that's a European think tank specializing in technology and surveillance.

Every time you download an app, accept a terms of service agreement, allow location tracking, or create an online account, well, a trail of information is generated.