So what else is new...

[via Wired News]:

It's a memory aid! A robotic assistant! An epidemic detector! An all-seeing, ultra-intrusive spying program!

The Pentagon is about to embark on a stunningly ambitious research project designed to gather every conceivable bit of information about a person's life, index all the information and make it searchable.

[...]

While the parameters of the project have not yet been determined, [...] LifeLog could go far beyond TIA's scope, adding physical information (like how we feel) and media data (like what we read) to this transactional data.

Later: Another piece of surveillance news, courtesy of Maureen Dowd at the New York Times.

Categories: technology
Posted by diego on May 21 2003 at 1:08 AM