LifeLog project seen as a privacy concern

The Washington Times ^ | 06/03/2003 | Associated Press

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Coming to you soon from the Pentagon: the diary to end all diaries -- a multimedia, digital record of everywhere you go and everything you see, hear, read, say and touch.

Known as LifeLog, the project has been put out for contractor bids by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, the agency that helped build the Internet and that is now developing the next generation of anti-terrorism tools.

[struwwelpeter]

"The life that is unexamined is not worth living."

Plato

[Ravenstar]

Yes but let's not give the government the opportunity to view it step by step as we go along. If it isn't an enumerated power in the Constituion the Federal Government is breaking the law of the land when they do it. As this would be.

Ravenstar

[stainlessbanner]

Welcome to the Darkside. Papers, please.

[fourdeuce82d]

How would someone agreeing to wear:

a tool to capture "one person's experience in and interactions with the world" through a camera, microphone and sensors worn by the user. Everything from heartbeats to travel to Internet chatting would be recorded.

be unconstiutional?

[Ravenstar]

It becomes unconstitutional as soon as the Government mandates that a certain class, employees for example, must wear such a tool or it records the actions of anyone else not aware the device is in operation.

Ravenstar

[OXENinFLA]

Wear?

A chip will just be implanted into a child when born.

[fourdeuce82d]

as soon as the Government mandates that a certain class, employees for example, must wear such a tool

didn't see that in the article.

[fourdeuce82d]

A chip will just be implanted into a child when born.

Oh come one- don't you know they've already done that? Do you really think those bar code scanners are just scanning upc codes? Wake up and smell the coffee, we're already wearing the Sign of the Beast...

well, not really. Seriously, the article plainly states you have to wear a mike, processor, and camera. What, the evil "they"/"them" are going to strap them to ourbodies in our sleep, and we won't notice?

Sometimes I sense a "black helicopter" trend among us that is just as silly as the "Ewwww...radiation" trope among the DUers.

[Ravenstar]

It is not that big a stretch to get there. Just try getting a job that involves working on a military base or other federal reservation without giving up your Fourth Amendment right not to be searched without probable cause. Question: Who is specifically forbidden from violating the Fourth Amendment? Answer: The Government. Yet who violates it millions of times a day now that the TSA is doing its thing. The Government!

Ravenstar

[OXENinFLA]

http://www.darpa.mil/ipto/Solicitations/PIP_03-30.html

Go here, and ask your self what is the motive behind the Gov't soliciting companies to INVENT this technology.

I think that is scarier than the program itself.

[fourdeuce82d]

Already been there- cool stuff.

red: your question,Gee, I don't know? What did DARPA say the reason was?

Sweet mother of god on a pogo stick- YOU HAVE TO STRAP ON A CAMERA, PROCESSOR, AND MICROPHONE IT'S NOT LIKE YOU WOULDN'T NOTICE.

Broke my rule against allcaps, but jesus christ you people NEED a little yelling.