Oracle started as a CIA project (2014)
Through In-Q-Tel, the CIA invested in a LOT of companies who were aiming to solve the problems they had.  Google was another very early investment by In-Q-Tel on behalf of the NSA because Google's stated goal -- to collect, organize, and make sense of all of the world's data -- overlaps with what the NSA's goal is (and it's possible that Google might come up with better ideas and tech for doing it than the NSA's brain trust).<p>If these agencies were NOT investing in potential technical solutions that would be a cause for concern.<p>Read more about In-Q-Tel and their investments here:  <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel</a>