Spying on Americans going to a whole new level
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Laying the framework for ultimate intrusion.
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2003/05/58909
" 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.
What national security experts and civil libertarians want to know is, why would the Defense Department want to do such a thing?
The embryonic LifeLog program would dump everything an individual does into a giant database: every e-mail sent or received, every picture taken, every Web page surfed, every phone call made, every TV show watched, every magazine read.
All of this -- and more -- would combine with information gleaned from a variety of sources: a GPS transmitter to keep tabs on where that person went, audio-visual sensors to capture what he or she sees or says, and biomedical monitors to keep track of the individual's health.
This gigantic amalgamation of personal information could then be used to "trace the 'threads' of an individual's life," to see exactly how a relationship or events developed, according to a briefing from the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency, LifeLog's sponsor.
Someone with access to the database could "retrieve a specific thread of past transactions, or recall an experience from a few seconds ago or from many years earlier ... by using a search-engine interface."
On the surface, the project seems like the latest in a long line of DARPA's "blue sky" research efforts, most of which never make it out of the lab. But DARPA is currently asking businesses and universities for research proposals to begin moving LifeLog forward. And some people, such as Steven Aftergood, a defense analyst with the Federation of American Scientists, are worried.
With its controversial Total Information Awareness database project, DARPA already is planning to track all of an individual's "transactional data" -- like what we buy and who gets our e-mail.
While the parameters of the project have not yet been determined, Aftergood said he believes 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. "
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2003/05/58909
" 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.
What national security experts and civil libertarians want to know is, why would the Defense Department want to do such a thing?
The embryonic LifeLog program would dump everything an individual does into a giant database: every e-mail sent or received, every picture taken, every Web page surfed, every phone call made, every TV show watched, every magazine read.
All of this -- and more -- would combine with information gleaned from a variety of sources: a GPS transmitter to keep tabs on where that person went, audio-visual sensors to capture what he or she sees or says, and biomedical monitors to keep track of the individual's health.
This gigantic amalgamation of personal information could then be used to "trace the 'threads' of an individual's life," to see exactly how a relationship or events developed, according to a briefing from the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency, LifeLog's sponsor.
Someone with access to the database could "retrieve a specific thread of past transactions, or recall an experience from a few seconds ago or from many years earlier ... by using a search-engine interface."
On the surface, the project seems like the latest in a long line of DARPA's "blue sky" research efforts, most of which never make it out of the lab. But DARPA is currently asking businesses and universities for research proposals to begin moving LifeLog forward. And some people, such as Steven Aftergood, a defense analyst with the Federation of American Scientists, are worried.
With its controversial Total Information Awareness database project, DARPA already is planning to track all of an individual's "transactional data" -- like what we buy and who gets our e-mail.
While the parameters of the project have not yet been determined, Aftergood said he believes 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. "
Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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http://www.myspace.com/brain_of_c
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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Maybe a merger with genebase in 10-15 years (once this dna ancestry project thing takes off), and voila! The they's can have the 'copters swoop in and replace a dissident with a programmed, docile clone without anyone ever knowing
This will be an interesting one to watch, thanks.
its funny...people will probably do this themselves with the aid of myspace...
just what i want to know about someone i dont know... what they did and ate today... what their favorite cartoon character.
where would i be today if i hadnt read QT4LIFES myspace blog title
''Big Macs Rock!''
since you always accuse me of being stoned heres a thought for ya
All these kids and people becoming increasingly smart to the untrained eye...and making what seems to be their thoughts ....making them available on a free web page for the entire society to see... EVERYONE..
but down deep, like humans are naturally able to do.... create lies about themselves and these lies posted are at the same time... in attempt to be involved and be popular...but at the very same time... they dont reveal truths... just stuff they think is unthreatening.... and in time... through adolescense and coming of age...these untruths become the reality of them...because you only are in society how others view you... and how can someone get to know you if they know everything about you before the date...or before they meet you at school
and than the kid wakes up and realizes their tactics to keep in touch with people 3 feet away from them have ultimately left them feeling painfully alone with no skills of life.
even though... they continue to make everything about them known to the world they slip farther and farther into lonliness.
and in just an instant discover the only thing they need is love so they abandon the town they live in and start a new life of honesty not under false fronts
and they find a nightclub they can work at the door... and they find someone and get matching tattos...and they learn how to play the guitar... and realize they truly can do anything...
and they wake up screaming and realize their entire life they have been trapped in a tom petty song
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg
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