> If a private company could make these kinds of things, what benefit would they get by not selling it to a government? Hedge fund stock market bullshit. You k

> If a private company could make these kinds of things, what benefit would they get by not selling it to a government? Hedge fund stock market bullshit. You know, the kind that has people track movements of various CEOs, or buy aerial/satellite images of parking lots, and stuff. That would be my main guess. As for "monitoring sensitive military installations around the globe" specifically, I'd look at PMCs and data brokers, but there's probably many more scenarios I'm failing to imagine right now. EDIT: Also, to channel my inner Matt Levine: securities fraud?