DARPA LifeLog

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LifeLog was a project by the Information Processing Techniques Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the United States Department of Defense (DOD). According to the brochure for the tender, it should be "an ontology-based (sub) system that records, stores and makes accessible the course of a person's experiences and interactions with the world in order to support a wide range of clerks / assistants and other system functions" . The goal of the LifeLog concept was "to be able to" track the threads of an individual's life in terms of events, conditions and relationships "and it should have the ability to" capture the entire experience of an individual, from the phone numbers dialed and respected E-mail messages down to every breath and step taken and location visited ".

Alignment and skills

LifeLog aimed to create a massive electronic database of all the activities and relationships a person has. This should include credit card purchases, websites visited, content of phone calls, sent and received e-mails, scans of faxes, sent and received mail, sent and received instant messages, books and magazines, selection of TV and radio programs, physical location through portable GPS Sensors, which contain medical data that would be collected via wearable sensors. The overall goal of this data record was to identify "preferences, plans, goals, and other indications of (a person's) intentions".

Another goal for LifeLog was to have a certain way of detecting relationships. It should "find meaningful patterns in the chronicle, the routines, habits and relationships of the user to other people, organizations, places and objects to draw conclusions in order to utilize these patterns and to make his task easier".

The DARPA program was canceled in January 2004 after civil rights activists criticized the system's impact on privacy.

News articles in the media described LifeLog as the "diary to end all diaries - a multimedia, digital record of everywhere you go and everything you see, hear, read, say and touch".

According to US government officials, LifeLog is not affiliated with DARPA's Total Information Awareness program .

The similarity, function and mode of action as well as the end and starting point to Facebook are striking .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pentagon Explores a New Frontier In the World of Virtual Intelligence , The New York Times . May 30, 2003. Retrieved December 19, 2013. 
  2. ↑ a b PIP 03-30 http://www.darpa.mil/ipto/Solicitations/PIP_03-30.html ( Memento from June 3, 2003) , DARPA's announcement for LifeLog in the Internet Archive
  3. ^ Isabel Pedersen: Ready to Wear: A Rhetoric of Wearable Computers and Reality-Shifting Media . Parlor Press, Anderson 2013, ISBN 1602354006 , p. 111.
  4. ↑ Pentagon Kills LifeLog Project . In: Wired , February 4, 2004. 
  5. ↑ Your life at your fingertips - courtesy of the Pentagon , USA Today . June 2, 2003. Retrieved March 28, 2019.