Online Atrocity Database Exposed Thousands of Vulnerable People in Congo

The Intercept spoke with multiple people exposed in the data leak who said they did not consent to any information being stored in a database. This was confirmed by four sources who worked closely with the KST, who said that gaining informed consent from people who were interviewed, including advising them that they were being interviewed for the KST, was not a part of the research methodology.
Sources close to the KST noted that its researchers didn’t identify who they were working for. The failure to obtain consent to collect personal information was likely an institutional oversight, they said.

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The other tldr is:

Bridgeway is the philanthropic wing of a Texas-based investment firm. Best known for its support for the “Kony 2012” campaign, the organization was involved in what a U.S. Army Special Operations Command’s historian called “intense activism and lobbying” that paved the way for U.S. military intervention in Central Africa. Those efforts by Bridgeway and others helped facilitate a failed $780 million U.S. military effort to hunt down Joseph Kony, the leader of a Ugandan armed group known as the Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA.
More recently, the foundation was accused of partnering with Uganda’s security forces in an effort to drag the United States into “another dangerous quagmire” in Congo

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The Intercept spoke with multiple people exposed in the data leak who said they did not consent to any information being stored in a database. This was confirmed by four sources who worked closely with the KST, who said that gaining informed consent from people who were interviewed, including advising them that they were being interviewed for the KST, was not a part of the research methodology.
Sources close to the KST noted that its researchers didn’t identify who they were working for. The failure to obtain consent to collect personal information was likely an institutional oversight, they said.
Don't talk to Westerners.
The other tldr is:
Bridgeway is the philanthropic wing of a Texas-based investment firm. Best known for its support for the “Kony 2012” campaign, the organization was involved in what a U.S. Army Special Operations Command’s historian called “intense activism and lobbying” that paved the way for U.S. military intervention in Central Africa. Those efforts by Bridgeway and others helped facilitate a failed $780 million U.S. military effort to hunt down Joseph Kony, the leader of a Ugandan armed group known as the Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA.
More recently, the foundation was accused of partnering with Uganda’s security forces in an effort to drag the United States into “another dangerous quagmire” in Congo