European Investment Fund (EIF) provided funds for the Israeli spyware company Paragon Solutions through an Israeli venture capital fund.

Paragon was used by Italian authorities to spy on journalists, humanitarian workers and business executives, in what is known as the Paragon scandal. Crucially, EIF belongs to the European Investment Bank (EIB), a financial institution owned by the EU member states.

When you click “verify” on LinkedIn, you’re not giving your passport to LinkedIn. You get redirected to a company called Persona. Full name : Persona Identities, Inc. Based in San Francisco, California. LinkedIn is their client. You are the face being scanned. […] They use uploaded images of identity documents — that’s my passport — to train their AI. […] And look at who’s doing “Data Extraction and Analysis” — Anthropic, OpenAI, and Groqcloud. Three AI companies are processing your passport and selfie data.