Charles "Fox" DeBarber is an American cyber threat intelligence and tech victim advocate, best known for his role as a cyber intelligence analyst on the CBS television series ''Hunted''. He is a former United States Army analyst and is the Director of Operations at the non-consensual sexual abuse material (NCSAM) victim advocacy organization Phoenix AI.

Education

DeBarber completed his MA in Intelligence Operations from

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in 2011 and graduated from the Defense Language Institute where he studied Modern Standard Arabic.

Career

DeBarber served in the US Army as a 35N (

Signals Intelligence Signals intelligence (SIGINT) is intelligence-gathering by interception of ''signals'', whether communications between people (communications intelligence—abbreviated to COMINT) or from electronic signals not directly used in communication ( ...

Collector/Analyst) from 2004 to 2013. During that time he completed one deployment during the surge of

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. He was awarded an Army Achievement Medal for his part in the recovery of the remains of a DUSTWUN soldier in 2008. During his service, he was awarded two Army Achievement Medals, an Army Commendation Medal, Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal,

Iraqi Campaign Medal The Iraq Campaign Medal (ICM) is a military award of the United States Armed Forces which was created by Executive Order 13363 of U.S. President George W. Bush on 29 November 2004, and became available for general distribution in June 2005. T ...

, and two

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s. Since leaving the military, DeBarber has worked as a

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, cyber intelligence analyst, and digital forensics investigator. He began working with survivors of NCSAM in 2015. He co-founded the tech development firm Phoenix AI in 2021 that develops curation tools, automation, and artificial intelligence (AI) to collect, de-index, and purge NCSAM. In 2016, he was chosen as a Cyber Analyst and lead Digital Forensics Examiner on CBS's reality television show ''Hunted''. He was featured in the episode "Operation Cupid's Revenge". Mr. DeBarber testified in the 2019 civil trial against the defunct GirlsDoPorn

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ring. He appeared before the Canadian House of Commons on June 7, 2021, and criticized PornHub's role in failing to impede the spread of NCSAM for over a decade.

Non-profit work

Since 2015, DeBarber has sat on the advisory board for the anti-child sex trafficking NGO Child Rescue and has assisted similar NGOs in efforts to recover lost children and combat child exploitation.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:DeBarber, Charles Intelligence analysts Living people United States Army non-commissioned officers Year of birth missing (living people) United States Army personnel of the Iraq War