In the early 21st century, the military had a plan to "collect the people's life log"

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Facebook user data is a consulting companyCambridge · AnalyticaIntoWhat was being usedIf data received from users posted on the SNS is collected, there is a person who sees danger as "It is possible to obtain an individual's detailed life log (record of life)". Meanwhile,National Defense Advanced Research Projects Bureau(DARPA) was working on a plan to collect the life log of all human beings in the beginning of the 21st century ".

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About 2003, DARPA launched a plan to record everything about people's actions, what they said, what I heard, and what I saw. this"Life log planThe idea of ​​itself is very old, and in 1945 he was a researcher of analog computersVanoeva BushMr,"Memex"We are devising a system that makes it possible to retrieve all information about individuals.

Of course, at the time Mr. Bush announced the concept of Memex, there was no technology to realize it. Before science can realize Mr. Bush's idea, we need more than half a century.

In the second half of 2001, he is also a businessman and computer engineerGordon BellMr. was a Microsoft technicianJim · GenmelWith Mr.Roger ReiderIn cooperation with Mr., I conducted an experiment to digitize my life log. Mr. Bell has digitized every record including his books, CDs, letters, memos, papers, pictures, lectures and speech for 17 years and Mr. Genmel and Roider tagged digitized data and easily search He said he has developed possible software.

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As a result of the experiment, the three persons said "Digitizing and storing the life log is very useful, as it is possible to easily bring out memorable items even when an unexpected disaster is hit," Life Log I found a great value in digitizing.

He is a researcher of DARPA who was conceived from Bush's and Bell's ideasDouglas · GaugeHe suggests "life log plan". After the "Lifelog Plan" obtained initial approval of the project in December 2002, Mr. Gage started a workshop with colleagues' researchers. Mr. Gage feels that if the individual's life log is completely collected, it will "affect the life theory itself", and the research team was also very ambitious.

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While there was an opinion that collecting the life log of life completely, there was an opinion that "It is a great hope for a person who can not keep memory for a long time", while condemns the privacy advocate faction as "a massive infringement act on privacy" There seems to be some opinion to do.

As soon as the life log plan started moving in February 2003, DARPA "Total Information Awareness(TIA) ", and publicly announced plans to collect data such as telephone, Internet communication, bank records, etc. However, Congress decided to terminate the TIA and the TIA was closed in just a few months. Although there was no relationship between Gage 's life log plan and TIA, the case where TIA was closed greatly affected the life log plan.

Gage said "criticism against life logs is paranoid," he says that people respond sensitively to the life log plan. Unlike the TIA for the purpose of monitoring terrorists, the life log plan itself is aimed only at collecting records, which means that it was never intended to monitor people. However, the pamphlet distributed by DARPA to researchers touches on the possibility of the life log planning functioning as a surveillance system, guessing various relationships from analysis of user routines, human relationships, place of visit, etc. I thought it was possible.

As a result, in June 2003, the New York Times criticized DARPA's life log plan as "Cyber ​​diary to record all actions", and the life log plan was brought to great disapproval.

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Eventually, in February 2004 DARPA announces that it will abandon its life log plan. Although Mr. Gage was in the stage of hiring researchers, Mr. Gage who had been forced to cancel the plan and was just about to renew the contract, said he left DARPA. Gage said that "DARPA at that time received great criticism by the TIA and wanted to avoid dealing with further criticism by continuing the life log plan," and the discontinuation of the life log plan was TIA It is said that it was a secondary damage caused by the closure of.

Mr. Gage, who was at the center of the research, left DARPA and it seemed that the life log plan had completely stopped, but from another aspect it may be possible to think that the life log plan was progressing steadily . The new life log plan is not government driven, it is said that private companies have developed advanced information terminals such as Facebook and other SNS and iPhone. Gage said, "Facebook may be said to be a pseudo-life log," and the difference between them is that Facebook and Apple do not want to pass user data to the government, while advertisers and other private companies It is a point to pass data.

People showed opposition to government-led life log plans, but they do not have a big objection to SNS developed by private companies. However, in recent years,The police are acquiring the real-time location information obtained from the user's smartphoneIt seems there is a way for the government to obtain data on private enterprises, such as the fact that it becomes clear. It may not be impossible for the government to use the data of private companies to realize the life log plan.

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