June 3, 2003
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Welcome to DARPA’s new toy - LifeLog. This ‘Super Diary‘ project aims to capture and store everything about the user - everything you see and hear, your movements, your physical state, your telephone calls and voice mail, all of your computer interactions such as email, instant messaging, browsing habits - EVERYTHING!
DARPA have said that the project is not connected to their data-mining project, recently renamed Terrorism Information Awareness, and that the “…allegation that this technology would create a machine to spy on others and invade people’s privacy is way off the mark,” but they have told potential contractors that the data collected could facilitate “early detection of an emerging epidemic.“
Frederick Douglass said, “Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.“
I think that we’re going to need a new A-Z!
