Now the internet conspiracy theorists are citing Facebook as the IAO’s new mask. Not surprisingly, the backlash from civil libertarians led to a Congressional investigation into DARPA’s activity, the Information Awareness Office lost its funding. Wikipedia’s IAO page says: “the IAO has the stated mission to gather as much information as possible about everyone, in a centralised location, for easy perusal by the United States government, including (though not limited to) internet activity, credit card purchase histories, airline ticket purchases, car rentals, medical records, educational transcripts, driver’s licenses, utility bills, tax returns, and any other available data.”. Information Awareness Office that the public began to show concern at its information mining projects. “It was when a journalist lifted the lid on the DARPA’s The story goes that Facebook is really the pretty, friendly mask, Now here is the date Facebook was founded. Feb 4 2004 “A change in priorities” is the only rationale agency spokeswoman Jan Walker gave to Wired News. Darpa hasn’t provided an explanation for LifeLog’s quiet cancellation. Researchers close to the project say they’re not sure why it was dropped late last month. But civil libertarians immediately pounced on the project when it debuted last spring, arguing that LifeLog could become the ultimate tool for profiling potential enemies of the state. LifeLog’s backers said the all-encompassing diary could have turned into a near-perfect digital memory, giving its users computerized assistants with an almost flawless recall of what they had done in the past.

Out of this seemingly endless ocean of information, computer scientists would plot distinctive routes in the data, mapping relationships, memories, events and experiences. Run by Darpa, the Defense Department’s research arm, LifeLog aimed to gather in a single place just about everything an individual says, sees or does: the phone calls made, the TV shows watched, the magazines read, the plane tickets bought, the e-mail sent and received.

The Pentagon canceled its so-called LifeLog project, an ambitious effort to build a database tracking a person’s entire existence. PENTAGON KILLS “LIFELOG” PROJECT SAME DAY FACEBOOK FOUNDED

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