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Intelligence agencies around the world, including the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), are increasingly acquiring, analyzing, using and sharing publicly available information. Given the scale of data involved, artificial intelligence (AI) – particularly machine learning (ML) – and cloud computing will be vital, as will broader definitions of “publicly available” in privacy law. This HillNote discusses how technological advancements and an explosive growth in publicly available information have made CSE and its domestic partners interested stakeholders in anticipated changes to Canada’s privacy law. Until recently, open-source intelligence (OSINT) – publicly available information that has been processed into intelligence – was typically derived from foreign broadcasts and publications.