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Use Of Open Source Information by the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Use Of Open Source Information by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. November 20, 2025. Prefatory Note – “This is an unclassified version of a comprehensive report by the staff of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (“PCLOB”) on the use of open source information by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”).
All PCLOB oversight reports undergo a robust accuracy and classification review process with the appropriate Executive Branch agencies to determine whether information contained in a PCLOB report is operationally accurate and whether the information can be made available to the public.
At PCLOB’s request, the FBI agreed to decontrol significant portions of internal policies governing its use of open source information, as well as information related to the tools the FBI uses to collect and analyze open source information. PCLOB understands this to be the first time such information has been publicly and officially disclosed.
Nevertheless, the FBI determined it could not decontrol certain information, including about its use of several tools—Clearview AI, ZeroFox, and Babel Street—such that the information about those tools could be releasable to the public. PCLOB thoroughly investigated the FBI’s use of these tools and included that information in its non-public version, which was provided to the White House, to Executive Branch agencies including the FBI, and to Congress.
In accordance with its statutory directive to “make its reports, including its reports to Congress, available to the public to the greatest extent that is consistent with the protection of classified information and applicable law,” PCLOB provides here a public, unclassified version of its report.”
