DARPA LifeLog
LifeLog was a project of the
Goals and capabilities
LifeLog aimed to compile a massive electronic database of every activity and relationship a person engages in. This was to include credit card purchases, web sites visited, the content of telephone calls and e-mails sent and received, scans of faxes and postal mail sent and received, instant messages sent and received, books and magazines read, television and radio selections, physical location recorded via wearable GPS sensors, biomedical data captured through wearable sensors. The high level goal of this data logging was to identify "preferences, plans, goals, and other markers of intentionality".[2]
Another of DARPA's goals for LifeLog had a predictive function. It sought to “find meaningful patterns in the timeline, to infer the user’s routines, habits, and relationships with other people, organizations, places, and objects, and to exploit these patterns to ease its task" [2][3]
Generically, the term lifelog or flog is used to describe a storage system that can automatically and persistently record and archive some informational dimension of an object's (object lifelog) or user's (user lifelog) life experience in a particular data category.
News reports in the media described LifeLog as the "diary to end all diaries—a multimedia, digital record of everywhere you go and everything you see, hear, read, say and touch".[4]
According to U.S. government officials, LifeLog is not connected with DARPA's Total Information Awareness.[4]
The LifeLog program was canceled in January 2004 after criticism concerning the privacy implications of the system.[5][6]
See also
- Information Processing Techniques Office
- Information Awareness Office
- Lifelogging
- Surveillance
- Facebook a Social media website perceived by some to be similar to the project.
References
- ^ "Pentagon Explores a New Frontier In the World of Virtual Intelligence". The New York Times. May 30, 2003. Retrieved 19 December 2013.
- ^ a b PIP 03-30 Archived June 3, 2003, at the Wayback Machine, DARPA's bid solicitation for LifeLog (now offline) at the Internet Archive
- ISBN 978-1602354005.
- ^ a b "Your life at your fingertips — courtesy of the Pentagon". USA Today. 2 June 2003. Retrieved 20 December 2013.
- ^ "Pentagon Kills LifeLog Project". Wired. 4 February 2004.
- ^ "15 Years Ago, the Military Tried to Record Whole Human Lives. Badly". www.vice.com. 21 May 2018. Retrieved 2020-08-01.