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05/20/2003 Archived Entry: "'LifeLog:' Be very, very afraid"
'LifeLog:' Be very, very afraid
John Poindexter has been attempting for a while now to place all Americans into a database that could be accessed by government officials, like the Total Information Awareness fiasco that got shut down last year. Well, he's back, and he's brought something called 'LifeLog' with him. From Wired:
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.
You can read more about it here (The Guardian) and here (DARPA website).
But I'll ask the same question I asked last year - if law enforcement in this country couldn't foresee the 9/11 attacks with the intelligence information they already collect (they said there was just too much to analyze), then what about this plan will make their job any easier?
This is nothing more than a plan to be able to spy on any US citizen, at any time, anywhere. Unacceptable.
Replies: 4 people speak up
Authoritarianism is rampant in this administration. This sounds like a joke, but it's a very scary joke.
Posted by madprophet @ 05/20/2003 02:50 PM NY
WE live in science fiction times.
Posted by skywalker77 @ 05/20/2003 04:44 PM NY
Blah3, excellent point that our astute intelligence agencies whined after 9-11 that they had TOO much intelligence information to sift through to discern any specific terrorist threat.
Apparently their remedy for this infomation-overload paradox is to acquire even more information. How about this cheeky suggestion: less, but more relevant intelligence, with superior analysis of that information?
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 05/20/2003 07:16 PM NY
MOOOOO MOOOOOO! Welcome to ranch dubya watch what your step. Don't do anything without prior approval. Think twice before asking permission to have an orignal thought. We'll be watching you. Now go find a nice corner to stand in,pick out a spot on the wall to stare at,and wait till we call for you.
Posted by kuma @ 05/20/2003 09:51 PM NY
