00:00Brittany Kaiser she's the CEO of Alphaton Capital a technology company that
00:04operates at the intersection of blockchain AI and digital privacy and I
00:09want to get into Alphaton in a moment but first this product Vera how do you
00:12come up with this? As a former whistleblower myself I started to see
00:16the demand from our current government everyone from President Trump to Scott
00:21Bessette and Elon Musk have been calling for whistleblowers to submit evidence of
00:25fraud waste and abuse and it's not very easy to figure out how to do that and
00:30to do that safely. So how do you use the blockchain to do that I mean how do you
00:35explain to a layperson who's not you know familiar with this technology? Blockchain
00:43is just an operating system that allows for tracking and traceability and
00:47accountability so when a whistleblower uploads evidence to Vera we can
00:51verify that the evidence is real we also use privacy technologies to strip off
00:56all of the metadata so we can't tell what device they use their location any other
01:01information about them and once that evidence a case is opened it's verified
01:05and it goes forward the whistleblower has the ability to decide to reveal their
01:10identity just to a law firm so that they can get their whistleblowing reward. It
01:14does sound like a technology that could be used for bad as well as good how
01:17important is the operator? In the end the entire point of the technology is that the
01:24operator of the technology never has access to the individual or the evidence
01:29and so we've created a platform where we as Alphaton Capital will never see any of
01:34that information but the government department and the law firm will and be
01:37able to take it forward into a case hopefully to stop fraud from continuing to
01:42happen against the government department by a company. Tell us about your
01:45experience as a whistleblower. I was a whistleblower against my former employer
01:50Cambridge Analytica and Facebook. I still eight years later still participate as
01:54an expert witness in cases from the Supreme Court to private cases taken
01:59forward and for me it was really difficult to figure out who to give that
02:03evidence to first and 27 different government investigations later and around
02:0850 lawsuits I would have loved to have had something this easy to use back then. I mean
02:13how painful was it to to participate in that? Again it's been an eight-year process. I mean beyond the
02:21admin I mean like the fear of what happens when you're doxxed.
02:26And that's why we wanted to give whistleblowers a choice to submit completely anonymously where
02:31we can guarantee in an open source product that we have no access to that data and
02:36neither will anyone that's receiving that submission. If they are going to get a
02:40reward from a case then of course they can decide to KYC privately with a law firm or
02:44with the government department because now whistleblowers can get 15 to 30 percent of
02:49the reward. All right it's a fascinating product and the company as well I mean I
02:55think even more deeply tied to what's going on in today's markets because you're
03:00trying to help people who operate artificial intelligence systems hold on to their
03:05privacy. Absolutely so we've been concentrating on making confidential
03:09computing accessible. Right now that's mostly used by our military what it means
03:14is from the hardware and firmware level you can run AI without the owners of those AI
03:19platforms getting access to any of your data.
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