Last month the London, UK radical think tank, Demos, published on-line a report '#Intelligence' on the use of social media intelligence and I found it today after an advert landed for a discussion forum next month at the Frontline Club, London.

From the summary:
This paper is the first effort to examine the ethical, legal and operational challenges involved in using social media for intelligence and insight purposes. It argues that social media should become a permanent part of the intelligence framework but that it must be based on a publicly argued, legal footing, with clarity and transparency over use, storage, purpose, regulation and accountability.
On my first reading it is a good effort, notably on the ethics involved, but is marred by an over-confidence in existing regulatory and oversight mechanisms in the UK.

Link to summary:http://www.demos.co.uk/publications/intelligence

The report itself:http://www.demos.co.uk/files/_Intell...pdf?1335197327