Investors at the CIA and Google have both identified a company that represents the next phase of intelligence-gathering: Recorded Future monitors the internet for patterns and events that may predict the future. Using data from websites and social networks, the company creates dossiers on people that may be key to intelligence officials. Their algorithms were able to prove Hezbollah was in possession of long-range missiles using a backlog of statements from the group's leader. Experts cite the CIA's investment in the company as indication their technology will be used by US intelligence.

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