Post by rovingreporter on Aug 19, 2020 11:02:24 GMT
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Facebook was originally a CIA program called "LifeLog".
LifeLog, via DARPA, was terminated on Feb. 4th, 2004.
Facebook was launched on Feb. 4th, 2004.
Many of the LifeLog team became executives of Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg is a figurehead.
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www.wired.com/2004/02/pentagon-kills-lifelog-project/
Pentagon Kills LifeLog Project
THE PENTAGON CANCELED its so-called LifeLog project, an ambitious effort to build a database tracking a person's entire existence.
Run by Darpa, the Defense Department's research arm, LifeLog aimed to gather in a single place just about everything an individual says, sees or does: the phone calls made, the TV shows watched, the magazines read, the plane tickets bought, the e-mail sent and received. Out of this seemingly endless ocean of information, computer scientists would plot distinctive routes in the data, mapping relationships, memories, events and experiences.
LifeLog's backers said the all-encompassing diary could have turned into a near-perfect digital memory, giving its users computerized assistants with an almost flawless recall of what they had done in the past. But civil libertarians immediately pounced on the project when it debuted last spring, arguing that LifeLog could become the ultimate tool for profiling potential enemies of the state.
Facebook was originally a CIA program called "LifeLog".
LifeLog, via DARPA, was terminated on Feb. 4th, 2004.
Facebook was launched on Feb. 4th, 2004.
Many of the LifeLog team became executives of Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg is a figurehead.
(2j
www.wired.com/2004/02/pentagon-kills-lifelog-project/
Pentagon Kills LifeLog Project
THE PENTAGON CANCELED its so-called LifeLog project, an ambitious effort to build a database tracking a person's entire existence.
Run by Darpa, the Defense Department's research arm, LifeLog aimed to gather in a single place just about everything an individual says, sees or does: the phone calls made, the TV shows watched, the magazines read, the plane tickets bought, the e-mail sent and received. Out of this seemingly endless ocean of information, computer scientists would plot distinctive routes in the data, mapping relationships, memories, events and experiences.
LifeLog's backers said the all-encompassing diary could have turned into a near-perfect digital memory, giving its users computerized assistants with an almost flawless recall of what they had done in the past. But civil libertarians immediately pounced on the project when it debuted last spring, arguing that LifeLog could become the ultimate tool for profiling potential enemies of the state.