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I don't buy that it's work traditionally reserved for governments, or that it's all bad. There are people offering their services to find kidnapped children, I

I don't buy that it's work traditionally reserved for governments, or that it's all bad. There are people offering their services to find kidnapped children, I struggle to see that as a bad thing. Private investigatory work has a long history in the country of Sherlock Holmes (or at least Dr Joseph Bell). You have figures as far back as Harry Philby flirting with foreign governments after their time within the UK government. They're not offering government services, they're offering their own capabilities.

rendaw 1y ago
> Black Cube ... its staff had snooped on journalists and adopted false identities to obtain information about film mogul Harvey Weinstein’s sexual abuse accusers That sounds like more or less the opposite of finding kidnapped children. > Providing home addresses to Russian oligarchs who have a history of topping people — particularly journalists