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. Full Story »
Posted by Bula - via Rebecca McKinnon, Wired, Slatest, NewsRack (U.S.), Mark Pegrum (t), David Wardell (t), Wil Kristin (t), Shakthi Sivanathan (t), David Fox (f), Fabrice Florin (f)
Very interesting and detailed explanation of the mutual interest of the world's biggest information gatherers and the intelligence community in understanding the vast amount of information that's out in the open, waiting to be interpreted.
It's good only in respect of bringing to light yet another "black" IT operation (see "John Poindexter") about which we'll never really know the truth. The article quotes a great deal of conjecture about this project, but little that's useful. For example, how will the gov't or Google VALIDATE the system? Lack of validation is how TSA became such a huge waste of money -- will this project just grow into another example of equating "lots of information" with "having an exclusive ... More »
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