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“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,” Shachtman reports. “In a white paper, the company says its temporal analytics engine ‘goes beyond search’ by “looking at the ‘invisible links’ between documents that talk about the same, or related, entities and events. The idea is to figure out for each incident who was involved, where it happened and when it might go down. Recorded Future then plots that chatter, showing online ‘momentum’ for any given event.”
“It’s not the very first time Google has done business with America’s spy agencies,” Shachtman reports. “Long before it reportedly enlisted the help of the National Security Agency to secure its networks, Google sold equipment to the secret signals-intelligence group. In-Q-Tel backed the mapping firm Keyhole, which was bought by Google in 2004 — and then became the backbone for Google Earth.”
Shachtman reports, “This appears to be the first time, however, that the intelligence community and Google have funded the same startup, at the same time.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Yeah, but who cleans the Pre-Cogs’ pool?
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn W.” for the heads up.]
Total Information Awareness ain’t dead.
Stop using Google NOW!!!
if you value your privacy!!!!
I wonder when the cogs will come off this wheel? When evil Google decides to sell that data to advertisers or they decide to buy the start up outright?
Oh Sausage fingers! I am off!
This sounds like some bad Denzel Washington spy thriller.
MacDailyNews Take: Yeah, but who cleans the Pre-Cogs’ pool?
LOL!
MDN is back!!!
Really large snails,
If the intelligence agencies were NOT investing in this type of technology, as a taxpayer, I’d be pissed.
The future is not one Skynet, but wars between different skynets battling for domination.
Can this thing tell me on what day Skynet will become self-aware?
Next up: The Android Cavity Search.
All you dumb Google users have been Google’s little bitches, getting your little privacy ass rammed daily.
And u little Android slaves, permanently sold your little asses to the devil for free…
“. . . sold your little asses to the devil for free…”
It sounds like the big asses are being unfairly discriminated.
Good one, mdn. One of your recent best!
“Yeah, but who cleans the Pre-Cogs’ pool?”
Tom Cruise at the rate his career is dying.
Be careful what political party who criticize on the web, it could come back to haunt you!
This sounds like something out of a William Gibson novel….coolhunters and data miner trying to predict the Next Big Thing…
Is this the web bot project??
CIA created Google. Google is the CIA. One in the same.