LifeLog: Because Big Brother Cares What You're Thinking

Introductory comments by Darren Weeks

Your privacy rights are again under attack.

First we had Echelon, a world-wide technological snooping system, which gathers data from faxes, telephone conversations, and e-mails and stores the data in a huge database. This is done to purportedly locate potential terrorists, despite the fact that the program was developed prior to September 11th.

On the heels of Echelon, came September 11th and the U.S.A. Patriot Act, which was written prior to the "terrorist attacks," and which we are told was not even read by the Congressmen and women who voted for it. The traitors in congress just pulled the "Yes" lever, and like Nero watching Rome burn, figuratively fiddled and said to hell with individual liberty and the Fourth Amendment — not that legislation can usurp the Constitution, but you'd better believe that they will pretend that it does.

Just as our outrage over one incredible infringement of our privacy begins to subside, we are slapped again by another.

It seems as though the monsters who control our country — as well as most of the rest of the world — won't be satisfied until every last corner of your life has been illuminated with the bright lights of their watchful eyes.

The latest assault is another component of the government's Total Information Awareness program, and makes the previous components look like a trip to the zoo. (Note: The above link for the TIA program will take you to Google's cache of the page. DARPA has now removed the page from their site.)

And by the way, speaking of Total Information Awareness, I have noticed that they have now changed the name of that program to Terrorism Information Awareness. This is a clever public relations move, to try to dispel public concerns that our government really wants to spy on every aspect of your life. By changing Total Information Awareness to Terrorism Information Awareness, they hope to continue to foster the lie that you are not their enemy, that some Muslim, taking flight lessons is, instead.

Make no mistake, if you are an American who loves your freedom, you are their enemy. You don't have to do anything but breathe. These people seek to enslave you, and take away your individual liberty, and control you totally and completely — right down to the very thoughts that you think and the words that you speak.

And judging from the attitudes of the average American, they are doing a pretty effective job at controlling people's minds.

As Dr. Richard Day, an insider with the controlling elite, in his speech before a group of pediatric physicians 1969 said:

"People are too trusting. People don't ask the right questions."

The mental conditioning begins in the government-controlled school systems, and is constant in media, and academia. And it is so effective, that people, "Don't ask the right questions." Or any questions.

Not content with being able to control minds, now the beasts wish to read them.

Just because you trust your government, doesn't mean your government trusts you. The fact that they plan to eliminate your freedom and any wealth that you possess is an issue with which, they believe, you ultimately might have a problem. And you might respond, in kind (or not so kind).

Hence, revokation of your firearms, and the absolute elimination of any privacy to which you currently lay claim.

And hence, "Homeland Security." Securing the homeland. What do they mean by "security?"

The word, "security" is derived from "secure." There are a few of definitions of "secure." Some can be utilized for public consumption, and others, I believe, are the meanings that the Elite use for their purposes.

1. Safe from harm, loss, attack, etc. [a secure hiding place.]

2. Free from fear, worry

The above definitions are the ones that the Ruling Elite want you to believe they mean by the term, secure. What do they really mean by "securing" the "Homeland?" Other definitions of  secure follow:

3. Fastened or fixed in a firm way [a secure knot.]

4. Sure; certain. [His success is now secure.]

5. To get; obtain [to secure an appointment]

In order to ensure their success in obtaining their New World Order, they must firmly fasten — or secure — each one of us in our place. They must tie us down under their watchful eyes so that there will be nothing that we can do, without their spotting it.

The following article in Wired, details yet another plan that the diabolical creatures have for us. It is called, "LifeLog," and its purpose is just as the name implies: To create a government log of every moment in your life. Every web page surfed, every word spoken, every thought, and every deed. They hope to shed their Illuminati light of darkness upon the very fibres of our beings, and the very depths of our souls.

And think of the "benefits" such a technological leap forward could provide us! Crime would virtually disappear! If a woman was raped, the perpetrator of the violent act could be swiftly and severely punished, because the government would only have to "pull the tape" of his life recording and watch him commit the act. Case closed!

We could completely do away with the protections built into the American justice system. No longer would we have to worry about an individual being innocent until proven guilty. We'd know that they were guilty. We'd just pull up their file out of the database, and hit "play." There'd be all of the incriminating evidence, transmitted via micro-chip to the powerful GPS satellite, then back down to the Information Awareness Office, or whatever name that they happened to be calling it on that given week.

Of course, if a person dared object to anything this beast of a Big Brother was trying to do, then of course maybe a few extra sections of computer code could be added to the electronic file. Perhaps, a few thoughts that he/she didn't really think. A few statements could be added that weren't really said by the individual. Or maybe they had been said, but in a moment of anger or frustration.

Folks, do you really want to allow the government to have this much involvement into your life?

Here's another thing to consider. If they can build a system that will monitor you so closely as to record your every word, thought, and deed, then it isn't such a far stretch to suggest that they might use it to input thoughts into your mind. Imagine trying to sleep while your big brother keeps talking to you in your head!

Do you think that I'm crazy to suggest these things? Read the article for yourself.

We really do live in the world George Orwell predicted.

-- Darren Weeks
October 13, 2003

A Spy Machine of DARPA's Dreams

02:00 AM May. 20, 2003 PT
Wired.com

It's a memory aid! A robotic assistant! An epidemic detector! An all-seeing, ultra-intrusive spying program!

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. (Emphasis is that of sweetliberty.org)

This gigantic amalgamation of personal information could then be used to "trace the 'threads' of an individual's life," to see exactly how a relationship or events developed, according to a briefing from the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency, LifeLog's sponsor.

Someone with access to the database could "retrieve a specific thread of past transactions, or recall an experience from a few seconds ago or from many years earlier ... by using a search-engine interface."

On the surface, the project seems like the latest in a long line of DARPA's "blue sky" research efforts, most of which never make it out of the lab. But DARPA is currently asking businesses and universities for research proposals to begin moving LifeLog forward. And some people, such as Steven Aftergood, a defense analyst with the Federation of American Scientists, are worried.

With its controversial Total Information Awareness database project, DARPA already is planning to track all of an individual's "transactional data" -- like what we buy and who gets our e-mail.

While the parameters of the project have not yet been determined, Aftergood said he believes LifeLog could go far beyond TIA's scope, adding physical information (like how we feel) and media data (like what we read) to this transactional data.

"LifeLog has the potential to become something like 'TIA cubed,'" he said.

In the private sector, a number of LifeLog-like efforts already are underway to digitally archive one's life -- to create a "surrogate memory," as minicomputer pioneer Gordon Bell calls it.

Bell, now with Microsoft, scans all his letters and memos, records his conversations, saves all the Web pages he's visited and e-mails he's received and puts them into an electronic storehouse dubbed MyLifeBits.

DARPA's LifeLog would take this concept several steps further by tracking where people go and what they see.

That makes the project similar to the work of University of Toronto professor Steve Mann. Since his teen years in the 1970s, Mann, a self-styled "cyborg," has worn a camera and an array of sensors to record his existence. He claims he's convinced 20 to 30 of his current and former students to do the same. It's all part of an experiment into "existential technology" and "the metaphysics of free will."

DARPA isn't quite so philosophical about LifeLog. But the agency does see some potential battlefield uses for the program.

"The technology could allow the military to develop computerized assistants for war fighters and commanders that can be more effective because they can easily access the user's past experiences," DARPA spokeswoman Jan Walker speculated in an e-mail.

It also could allow the military to develop more efficient computerized training systems, she said: Computers could remember how each student learns and interacts with the training system, then tailor the lessons accordingly.

John Pike, director of defense think tank GlobalSecurity.org, said he finds the explanations "hard to believe."

"It looks like an outgrowth of Total Information Awareness and other DARPA homeland security surveillance programs," he added in an e-mail.

Sure, LifeLog could be used to train robotic assistants. But it also could become a way to profile suspected terrorists, said Cory Doctorow, with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In other words, Osama bin Laden's agent takes a walk around the block at 10 each morning, buys a bagel and a newspaper at the corner store and then calls his mother. You do the same things -- so maybe you're an al Qaeda member, too!

"The more that an individual's characteristic behavior patterns -- 'routines, relationships and habits' -- can be represented in digital form, the easier it would become to distinguish among different individuals, or to monitor one," Aftergood, the Federation of American Scientists analyst, wrote in an e-mail.

In its LifeLog report, DARPA makes some nods to privacy protection, like when it suggests that "properly anonymized access to LifeLog data might support medical research and the early detection of an emerging epidemic."

But before these grand plans get underway, LifeLog will start small. Right now, DARPA is asking industry and academics to submit proposals for 18-month research efforts, with a possible 24-month extension. (DARPA is not sure yet how much money it will sink into the program.)

The researchers will be the centerpiece of their own study.

Like a game show, winning this DARPA prize eventually will earn the lucky scientists a trip for three to Washington, D.C. Except on this excursion, every participating scientist's e-mail to the travel agent, every padded bar bill and every mad lunge for a cab will be monitored, categorized and later dissected.

Back to Big Brother | Issues Index | CDR Home