Senator McCain of Arizona and his McCain Institute worked closely with THORN.
At a 2014 meeting of the Arizona Human Trafficking Council, a concern was raised about THORN's handling of the overlap between child porn and sex trafficking.
The fact that THORN chose Arizona to start with its roll out of Spotlight, is also not surprising because of the state's long tradition with military level technology. It is home to Fort Huachuca
"Lucifer is part of the Large Binocular Telescope, which is right next to the Vatican Observatory on Mt. Graham in Safford. That’s right, the Vatican has an observatory in Arizona, manned by Jesuit astronomers..."
Joanna Bourke OBE : "Principal Investigator of SHaME (Sexual Harms and Medical Encounters), a Wellcome Trust funding project exploring medical and psychiatric aspects of sexual violence."
Apr. 2024 : " SHaME Director Ruth Beecher sat down with Principal Investigator Joanna Bourke to reflect on two of her groundbreaking works on sexual violence, Rape (2007) and Disgrace (2022), for Women's History Review."
"Timothy Wyllie’s mother, Diana Wyllie, worked for British Intelligence, both in England and Germany before the war and later at Bletchley Park with the Enigma Code-breakers. In British Intelligence during WWII, Diana Wyllie was classified “ULTRA“."..
The Citizen Lab : "We found suspected NSO Pegasus infections associated with 33 of the 36 Pegasus operators we identified in 45 countries: Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Cote d’Ivoire, Egypt, France,.."
"A separate operator that appears to focus on Morocco may also be spying on targets in other countries including Algeria, France, and Tunisia. We identify several operators operating in Israel "..