Zola's Algorithm

"The twenty-first is a digital book. Zola taught HYDRA how to read it. Your bank records, medical histories, voting patterns, e-mails, phone calls, your damn SAT scores... Zola's Algorithm evaluates people's past to predict the future."

- Jasper Sitwell

Zola's Algorithm was an data analysis program written by Armin Zola to identify targets for HYDRA. It analysed people's data available online, including private data, to predict whether they currently posed or would pose in the future a threat for the organization. Those deemed a threat by the algorithm would be targeted for elimination by the helicarriers of Project Insight, a S.H.I.E.L.D. project hijacked by the HYDRA infiltrators to advance Alexander Pierce's endgame.