Recorded Future is a start-up company that monitors streams of data from such sources as Twitter, WordPress, websites, blogs, Government sites, blogs, and news outlets with the goal of predicting relationships into the future. These relationships can be amongst people, companies and countries. Recorded Future takes the task out of managing the copious amount of data that is out there and makes it useful to people. What is neat about Recorded Future, is that it is aware of keywords like dates, times and locations and uses those keywords to piece together other bits of information.
As discussed in the video from Democracy Now!, both Google and the CIA have backed funding for this start-up company. With so much of our information freely available out there for the taking, what is to stop any company from profiling you and predicting out your potential behaviours?
Also, think about the impact that future information would have on today's stock market. Would the stock market still work the same if predictions on market (or governmental) stability were made known to everyone? Would companies spring up that would attempt to counteract the future trends by pumping (false) contrary information into the ether?
How do you feel about your information being claimed by another company, evaluated and interpreted? Are you okay with more targeted ads being sent your way for the car you will buy in the next month (with say 80% certainty)? I'd love to hear your thoughts.
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