A "lurker" commended I look at this previously unknown blogsite for a review of the Demos paper and a related UN paper:http://osintblog.org/?p=1462

Good points made here, which to date are rarely heard in public discussions with officialdom on social media intelligence:
A democratic state will not want (and be able) to afford general and permanent mistrust in its ways of safeguarding democracy, and so the authors adjust some Just War criteria in order to form the very necessary ‘rules of engagement’ for SOCMINT: sufficient, sustainable cause; integrity of motive; proportionate and necessary methods; and right authority, validated by external oversight.