Introduction In recent decades, enormous technological progress has revolutionized the way intelligence and information are collected, processed, used and disseminated. According to Curry et al. (2013), organizations are faced with the challenge of processing and analyzing huge volumes of highly dynamic data. The same challenge continues to be experienced by our intelligence apparatus and those responsible for protecting citizens from both internal and external threats (Cogan, 2004). Importantly, the new role of big data has arrived at a time when increasingly complex adversaries are emerging and when the irresistible power of globalization continues to eliminate national borders (Curry et al., 2013). A universally agreed upon definition of the term “intelligence” has yet to be adopted. However, a common element of intelligence operations, as evident in most conventional definitions of the phenomenon, is secrecy (Dupont, 2005; Cogan, 2004; Scott & Jackson, 2004). However, with technological advances, information can now be accessed from sources that the intelligence community considers open (Rolington, 2013). As seen below, this has its advantages and disadvantages. Some contemporary definitions firmly point out that the traditional concept of secrecy is becoming less and less useful as the need to share information becomes imperative for intelligence operations (Scott & Jackson, 2004; Cogan, 2004; Warner, n/a). On the other hand, it is argued that as long as it is open, it cannot be secret (Lowenthal, 2009). Certainly, big data holds enormous promise for intelligence, but whether or not the boundary between intelligence and information is disappearing is a two-sided question… middle of the paper… ago. Conventionally, secrecy has been the constitutive element of intelligence. Proponents argue that secrecy is important to intelligence operations because of the need to protect the sources from which it is obtained and the need to avoid premature judgments. However, critics have widely questioned the validity of the definition of intelligence from this perspective and its applicability today. There is concern that such a description limits understanding of where the line between intelligence and information can be drawn. With multiple sources of information in the Internet age, open source intelligence has become more important than ever, despite the intelligence community's widespread reluctance to acknowledge it. Whether or not the boundary between intelligence and information has collapsed under the weight of big data is a two-dimensional question.