[1] The patent was used for continuous collection and processing of data and information from sources across the open, deep, and dark web, facilitated by machine learning.

[2] The company received initial funding from Google and In-Q-Tel, which was reported in a July 2010 introduction to Recorded Future published by Wired.

"[16] Likewise, in an article in the Washington Post authored by former General Counsel of the National Security Agency Stewart Baker, described the company as a predictive analytics web intelligence firm but deleted the term upon request of Recorded Future.

[21] As of 2015[update], it had partnerships with IBM, HP ArcSight, Cimation, Ethnographic Edge, Tiberium Security, and Malformity Labs LLC per its company profile published by Businessweek.

[22] In November 2017, Recorded Future published analysis asserting that the Ministry of State Security (MSS) influences or alters their National Vulnerability Database (CNNVD) to coverup espionage activities.

"[26] Part 2 of the report was released on August 1, 2014, supposedly with a strengthened "earlier hypothesis about Snowden leaks influencing Al-Qaeda’s crypto product innovation."

[27] Glenn Greenwald and Andrew Fishman criticized Recorded Future's report did not prove causation between Snowden's leak and improved encryption by al-Qaeda.

The bots used pornography or randomized word strings to divert discussions of protests, targeting Mandarin speakers on a variety of social media platforms.

[30] In April 2015, a coding website accused Recorded Future of violating internet privacy by analyzing private Facebook messages, which it denied.