The CIA and Google are investing in a company that has developed a web-based monitoring system for people and events
In general, a slightly long title, but it fully reflects the described event. The fact is that, indeed, Google and the CIA have invested in a company that is developing a real-time data monitoring system on the Web. At the moment, the system is already working, and every day an analysis of thousands of web resources and user accounts on them is carried out. The data is analyzed not just like that, but with the aim of revealing the connections between different personalities, events, accidents and others. Interestingly, the service is designed so that it can track even very implicit connections between people, events and incidents.
The monitoring service, developed by Recorded Future, has a non-linear algorithm, and even knows how to identify a circle of people who are involved in a particular incident. The most interesting thing is that it helps to predict the course of development of an event. The CIA and Google such a monitoring service seemed so interesting that both organizations invested $ 10 million each. At the same time, the board of directors of Recorded Future included representatives of both organizations.
The CIA, as well as Google, has been researching publicly available data for a long time and the ability to identify connections between famous events and people. For example, sometimes a very complex problem can be solved after analyzing publicly available data.
And the monitoring service developed by Recorded Future just helps to find the necessary information by highlighting individual events, people and events that are mentioned on various resources. Immediately after isolating the primary data, a “spatial and temporal” analysis of the event and event takes place, which allows you to really establish implicit, seemingly connections, and even predict the course of events. For analysis, recently developed algorithms with elements of artificial intelligence are used by the mentioned company.
To date, more than 100 million events have been analyzed. The results of data processing are stored on Amazon’s servers - Recorded Future uses the cloud service offered by this company. Experts believe that the company can use the data for various purposes, including intelligence. It is clear that for the CIA this is a bonanza, and literally. Well, and Google - a huge corporation, too, will not interfere with such a technology, right?
Generally speaking, a bunch of Google-CIA somehow looks strange. Of course, this can also be an accidental cooperation, due to the interest of both organizations in the same technology - after all, both organizations will use this monitoring system for different purposes (well, I want to think so). And the service offered by Recorded Future is really very entertaining.
Source: www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia