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Wednesday, February 04, 2004

DARPA Funds Internet Tracking Scheme [Slashdot]

Gibson's neuromancer gives a fictional account of the real life that this story seems to replay! Here is a quote from the book...

"Case was the hottest computer cowboy cruising the information superhighway--jacking his consciousness into cyberspace, soaring through tactile lattices of data and logic, rustling encoded secrets for anyone with the money to buy his skills. Then he double-crossed the wrong people, who caught up with him in a big way--and burned the talent out of his brain, micron by micron. Banished from cyberspace, trapped in the meat of his physical body, Case courted death in the high-tech underworld. Until a shadowy conspiracy offered him a second chance--and a cure--for a price.... "


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Pentagon Kills LifeLog Project. The experiment designed to record absolutely everything a person sees, reads, buys or does in daily life is dead. But relieved civil libertarians remain wary, worried that the government may perform data-mining projects elsewhere. By Noah Shachtman. [Wired News]

Interesting in that what right does a person have? Does MIT and computer science researchers ever think that individuals have inalienable rights to privacy? Can MIT be considered a great university under this context?


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