For example, in late 2016, CIA-funded data analytics firm Palantir came under fire for discriminatory hiring practices by the Department of Labor, which conducts audits of privately held companies with government contracts.
Borbely and Domenico Scala, the head of Fifa's audit and compliance committee, privately insist they are serious about rooting out the bad guys and equipped for the task.
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, a watchdog set up after Enron's collapse to police the audit industry, told the firm privately in 2008 that its quality controls weren't adequate.
He previously provided audit services to publicly and privately owned businesses in a variety of industries.
And mathematician Cathy O'Neil, who has been vocal about the dangers of algorithmic decision-making, has launched a firm that is working privately with companies to audit their algorithms.
On May 17, 2006, Robert Ryan, the chairman of the audit committee, asked Keyworth if they could meet privately at seven the next morning, before the board meeting.
Such audits uncover numerous vulnerabilities which are then shared privately with technology companies to fix issues that could otherwise have caused serious damage to users and networks.
But the move was privately blocked by the ethics committee and audit committee, which said it would breach Fifa's rules.
However, one US official said only the "beginnings of conversations" had taken place and Ghani and Abdullah differed privately on the fine points of the audit proposal.
Sageworks collects and analyzes data on the performance of privately held companies and provides accounting and audit solutions.
"It's got to be time sequenced". Sageworks, a financial information company, collects and analyzes data on the performance of privately held companies and provides accounting and audit solutions.
