[P2P-F] Fwd: Google, CIA Invest in ‘Future’ of Web Monitoring ( 2010 Wired article )

Mon Sep 12 09:00:21 CEST 2011

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From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:59 PM
Subject: Google, CIA Invest in ‘Future’ of Web Monitoring ( 2010 Wired
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http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_Future

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_analytics

https://www.recordedfuture.com/

Google, CIA Invest in ‘Future’ of Web Monitoring

   - July 28, 2010

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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. In a white paper, the company says its temporal analytics
engine “goes beyond
search<http://blog.recordedfuture.com/2010/03/13/recorded-future-%E2%80%93-a-white-paper-on-temporal-analytics/>”
by “looking at the ‘invisible links’ between documents that talk about the
same, or related, entities and events.”

   - By Noah Shachtman<http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/author/noah_shachtman/>
    [image: Email Author]  <noah.shachtman at gmail.com>
   -  <http://www.twitter.com/dangerroom>
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   - Categories: Spies, Secrecy and
Surveillance<http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/category/spies-secrecy-and-surveillance/>
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_Future

*Recorded Future Inc.* is a software company based in Cambridge,
Massachusetts <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge,_Massachusetts>,
United States, specializing in predictive
analytics<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_analytics>.
Using what they call a "temporal analytics engine", Recorded Future provides
forecasting tool to help analysts predict future events by scanning sources
on the Internet, and extracting <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining>,
measuring <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_theory#Link_analysis>, and
visualizing the information to show networks and patterns in the past,
present, and future. The software analyzes sources and forms "invisible
links" between documents to find links that tie them together and may
possibly indicate the entities and events involved. The company was founded
in 2008 by Christopher Ahlberg<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Ahlberg>
[1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_Future#cite_note-bweek-0> and has
16 employees as of July
2010.[2]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_Future#cite_note-wired-1>
 Both Google <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google> (on May 3,
2010)[3]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_Future#cite_note-2>
 and the CIA <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA> have invested in the
company, through their investment arms,Google
Ventures<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Ventures>
 and In-Q-Tel <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel>,
respectively.[2]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_Future#cite_note-wired-1>

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