Sunday 22 June 2003

A software patent on a key image format expires this month. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition] 10:01:09 PM

so i went and looked at this weblog.............. 4:45:24 PM

Giles Hogben from the European Commission fears that "loss of sensory privacy" can indeed become a nightmare. The Pentagon, blissfully free of such Old European qualms, wants to develop a digital super diary that records heartbeats, travel, Internet chats, indeed, everything a person does, which could lead to powerful software to analyse behaviour. Known as LifeLog, the project aims to capture and analyse a multimedia record of everywhere a subject goes and everything he or she sees, hears, reads, says and touches. The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has solicited bids and hopes to award four 18-month contracts beginning this summer. [doors of perception] 4:38:38 PM