THORN partnered with Amazon and Digital Reasoning to create their product
“Spotlight.”
Spotlight is an AI-powered surveillance tool, which they sold to police departments across the nation.

If you go to their website it says that “Spotlight helps find kids faster.”
Interesting though, Amazon already had an AI surveillance tool called “Rekognition” on the market.
But…Congress had put a moratorium on Amazon, and the sale of Rekognition, for one year. Why?? Because in a test run of Rekognition’s software (by the ACLU; making sure the software was accurate)...34 members of Congress were flagged as having an arrest record.
Clearly Congress was very concerned about the results.

So what did Amazon do?? They skirted around this moratorium, and partnered with THORN to create a new facial recognition software which they would give away FREE to police departments.
Of course they claim this was “in an attempt to stop child trafficking.”

It is also worth noting that both Amazon and Digital Reasoning had ties to In-Q-Tel (C-I-A).

So here we had 2 major C-I-A connected companies coming together to create “anti-child trafficking” software.

The C-I-A has a history with ties to child sex trafficking rings and related stories; some we have discussed on this channel. If these weren’t red flags, I don’t know what is.

The question “what was going on with the facial recognition software” has been bothering me. I wanted to know why these companies and entities wanted it so bad. I found the answer I was looking for, which we will discuss later on.

Not only was THORN working with Amazon and Digital Reasoning, they partnered with other companies such as: Google, Tumblr, Microsoft, Adobe, Facebook, Pinterest, IAC, Verizon, Snapchat, Imgur, SV Angel, S-Force, Expedia, Twillo, Twitter, Dropbox, Goldman Sachs, and Intel.

THORN also partnered with NCMEC AND ICMEC!!

But wait…there’s more.
THORN was also involved with The McCain Institute and Arizona State University (ASU).

Who were notables currently or who previously served on The Board of Directors of The McCain Institute?

Cindy McCain
Ernie Allen (was the President of NCMEC, and the “child trafficking expert” for THORN and The McCain Institute)
Ashton Kutcher
Senator Kelly Ayotte
Dr. Michael Crow (ASU President; and Chairman of InQ-tel)
Dr. Mark Esper
Senator Heidi Heitkamp
Senator Joe Lieberman
General Daid Petraeus
And
Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild (Bronfman/Rothschild)

The McCain Institute claimed they were all about “child trafficking.” How much did they spend on combating child trafficking? ZERO (see presentation from Nov 25th).

Instead, they shuffled money over to Arizona State University.

In the time frame between 2012 and 2014, they donated $2.5 million to ASU.

Then ASU turned around and donated money to The Clinton Foundation and The Clinton Global Initiative. ASU was one of their top donors. Does this sound like money laundering? Why were they doing this? What were they up to? We will tackle that in our digs through this rabbit hole.