Disclosed how facebook originated? The Pentagon has abolished the Internet Surveillance Project on the same day Facebook was founded

In 2004, the Pentagon abolished the mass-surveillance project on the same day Facebook was launched

The project of the state agency DARPA titled "LifeLog Project" was intended to collect personal data and habits of browsing the Internet of American citizens. However, for no apparent reason, the US government decided to terminate the project on Facebook's day on February 4, 2004.

Launched by the DARPA organization, the right hand of the Ministry of Defense, the "LifeLog" project had the goal of gathering in one place, everything that the individual says, see or do with the help of: phone calls, watching TV shows, reading magazines, buying aircars, received e-mails.

From this seemingly infinite sea of information, computer scientists would thoroughly recognize important information in this information, map relationships, memories, events and experiences.

Every similarity to the Facebook platform is random! Or it may not be a coincidence ...

Support for the LifeLog project said that a comprehensive database of individuals could turn into almost perfect digital memory, providing users with computer help through an almost flawless array of what they did in the past.

But civil rights spokeswomen immediately fell into the project saying LifeLog could become the ultimate tool for profiling potential enemies of the state.

The scientists who were close to the project say they are not sure why it was abolished in early February 2004. DARPA did not provide an explanation for the peaceful cancellation of the LifeLog project. "Changing Priorities" is the only information that Jan Walker's spokeswoman gave to the Wired News portal.

In February 2004, Wired magazine stated:

"The LifeLog project is the latest in a series of controversial programs that DARPA has abolished in recent months. The Congress also abolished the Terrorist Information Initiative (TIA), although many analysts believe that his research continues on the confidential side of the Pentagon Curtain. "
"I always thought that LifeLog would be the third program (after TIA and FutureMap) that could violate the privacy of every citizen," said Peter Harsha, head of the Government's Computer Research Association.

"We are obviously very disappointed," said Howard Shrobe, who led a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who spent several weeks preparing to conclude an agreement to work on the LifeLog project. "We were very interested in the focus of the program research ... how to record and organize the experience of a savage man. This topic has great significance for artificial intelligence and cognitive science. "

David Karger, Shrobe's colleague from the MIT University, thought that such projects would continue in DARPA.

"I'm sure that such research will continue to be funded under some other name," Karger wrote in an email. "I can not imagine DARPA" leaving "such key research areas."

• 2 May, 2018
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