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LifeLog: Super Diary Worries Privacy Activists

A Pentagon project to develop a digital super diary that records heartbeats, travel, Internet chats, everything a person does, also could provide private companies with powerful software to analyze behavior. Giles Hogben from the European Commission fears that “loss of sensory privacy” can indeed become a nightmare. The Pentagon, blissfully free of such Old European qualms, has solicited bids via DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) and hopes to award four 18-month contracts beginning this summer.

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