Exclusive: Google, CIA Invest in 'Future' of Web Monitoring

Exclusive: Google, CIA Invest in 'Future' of Web Monitoring

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The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future.

The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present and still-to-come.

It’s not the very first time Google has done business with America’s spy agenci

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[edit on 29-7-2010 by ModernAcademia]

I guess tptb didn't like webbot being godlike so they had to be better

Recorded Future strips from web pages the people, places and activities they mention. The company examines when and where these events happened (“spatial and temporal analysis”) and the tone of the document (“sentiment analysis”). Then it applies some artificial-intelligence algorithms to tease out connections between the players.

Imagine if used here on ATS for example, it would basically have a detailed database of everyone's real political views.

Honestly.. I think it's time I stopped using google.

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[edit on 29-7-2010 by ModernAcademia]

Already posted here.

reply to post by ~Lucidity


What the....????

I did a search first as I was positive someone must have posted it already
Didn't get a result, but if I do the search now I find it.

I do not find mine though... I guess it needed to index.

ok thanks
Mods plz close, my apologies!!!

As mentioned, there is an already existing thread on this topic here.

Please contribute any further questions and/or comments to the above linked thread.

Thank you.

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