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Information Processing Techniques Office.government officials, LifeLog is not connected with DARPA's Total Information Awareness. News reports 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". Generically, the term lifelog or flog is used to describe a storage system that can automatically and persistently record and archive some informational dimension of an object's (object lifelog) or user's (user lifelog) life experience in a particular data category. The DARPA program was canceled in January, 2004, after criticism from civil libertarians concerning the privacy implications of the system. It sought to “find meaningful patterns in the timeline, to infer the user’s routines, habits, and relationships with other people, organizations, places, and objects, and to exploit these patterns to ease its task" Īnother of DARPA’s goals for LifeLog had a predictive function.

The high level goal of this data logging was to identify "preferences, plans, goals, and other markers of intentionality". This was to include credit card purchases, web sites visited, the content of telephone calls and e-mails sent and received, scans of faxes and postal mail sent and received, instant messages sent and received, books and magazines read, television and radio selections, physical location recorded via wearable GPS sensors, biomedical data captured through wearable sensors. LifeLog aimed to compile a massive electronic database of every activity and relationship a person engages in.
