GCIS CYBER-SECURITY BRIEFING: FCW Report: CIA, Google fund Web analysis firm

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ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: FCW

29July2010 7:41amPDT

GCIS CYBER-SECURITY UPDATE: In-Q-Tel and Google Ventures are investing in Recorded Future, a company whose technology monitors the Web in real time and develops predictions of future events from the content, according to reports.

In-Q-Tel is the investment arm of the Central Intelligence Agency; Google Ventures, of course, is Google's investment firm. While Google and the CIA do not appear to be directly or deliberately collabortating, Danger Room writer Noah Schactman notes that the move may give Google's critics some ammunition.

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