The operating company (OSINTech Inc.) collects information from websites that it has selected as data sources.
The selection criterion is that the website must be operated by policy-formulating or rule-setting organizations. Therefore, with limited exceptions*, media organizations are not included as sources. However, information from media outlets may appear when it is quoted or reprinted by a rule-making organization.
New information sources are continuously added, but the order of addition is determined based on the degree of relevance to each Rule Trend Theme. As a result, there may be regional or sectoral biases. Likewise, differences in update frequency or other characteristics of each source website may cause variation in the number of retrieved articles.
The operating company continuously strives to improve overall coverage. However, please understand that the number of articles retrieved on RuleWatcher should not be interpreted as an indicator of social or thematic impact.
The operating company does not assign any weighting to the collected information.
Exceptions for media organizations:
Non-profit or independent institutions engaged in public awareness of social or environmental issues, and official public organizations that report on government statements or policies.
The date shown represents the publication date contained in the collected article.
If no publication date is included in the article body, the date on which RuleWatcher retrieved the article for operational convenience.
If only the year and month are provided and the specific day is not, the date may be displayed as the
first day of that month for convenience.
These items may include results generated by machine learning, which means some may be displayed incorrectly.