How the C.I.A. Perfects its Social Media Monitoring Technologies
But some data-mining is richer than others. And the best software around is more likely to be developed in Silicon Valley than in the Pentagon. That’s part of the reason why the C.I.A. created a venture capital arm ten years back, called In-Q-Tel. It seeks out and provides funding to small start-ups developing technologies that could be of interest to the intelligence community…
Startups Backed By The CIA
Intelligence agencies are increasingly interested in mining open-source intelligence, particularly online, but the proliferation of voices, whether on social networks, blogs, or elsewhere, can be challenging to make sense of. Visible Technologies, FMS and StreamBase, all companies that provide products that analyze the massive amount of data flowing out of social networking and communication sites, all found spots in the In-Q-Tel portfolio.
