WIRED News: Pentagon Alters LifeLog Project

Pentagon Alters LifeLog Project

By Noah Shachtman

02:00 AM Jul. 14, 2003 PT

Monday is the deadline for researchers to submit bids to build the Pentagon's so-called LifeLog project, an experiment to create an all-encompassing über-diary.

But while teams of academics and entrepreneurs are jostling for the 18- to 24-month grants to work on the program, the Defense Department has changed the parameters of the project to respond to a tide of privacy concerns.

Lifelog is the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's effort to gather every conceivable element of a person's life, dump it all into a database, and spin the information into narrative threads that trace relationships, events and experiences.

It's an attempt, some say, to make a kind of surrogate, digitized memory.

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