Click here to listen to broadcast of story.
Investors at the CIA and Google are backing a
company called “Recorded Future” that monitors tens of thousands of
websites, blogs and Twitter accounts in real time in order to find
patterns, events and relationships that may predict the future. The news
comes amidst Google’s so-called “Wi-Spy” scandal, that refers to
revelations that Google’s Street View cars operating in some thirty
countries snooped on private Wi-Fi networks over the last three years.
Noah Shachtman, contributing editor at Wired magazine and editor of its national security blog, Danger Room
John Simpson, director of Consumer Watchdog’s Inside Google project.
