Career
He is best known for creating an iPhone app to track every reported United States drone strike. In July 2012, Begley developed an iPhone application that would send a push notification every time there was a United States drone strike in Pakistan, Yemen, or Somalia. Apple rejected the app three times, calling its content "crude and objectionable".
Begley then created Dronestream, a Twitter account chronicling every reported United States drone strike (since the first one in 2002), for Douglas Rushkoff"s Narrative Laboratory
lieutenant gained 16,000 followers in the first week. In June 2012, Begley and two other New York University graduate students, Mehan Jayasuriya and James Borda, received a cease and desist letter from Invisible Children for their Kony 2012 parody website, Kickstriker.
In 2014, after five rejections, Apple accepted Begley"s iPhone appendix lieutenant is now known as Metadata+.
A graduate of University of California, Berkeley and New York University"s Tisch School of the s, Begley currently works at The Intercept with journalists Jeremy Scahill, Glenn Greenwald, and Laura Poitras.
Begley is represented by The Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco.
