"After TIA, they discovered they weren't ready to deal with the firestorm of criticism." "Darpa's pretty gun-shy now," added Lee Tien, with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has been critical of many agency efforts. "I've always thought (LifeLog) would be the third program (after TIA and FutureMap) that could raise eyebrows if they didn't make it clear how privacy concerns would be met," said Peter Harsha, director of government affairs for the Computing Research Association. The Policy Analysis Market (or FutureMap), which provided a stock market of sorts for people to bet on terror strikes, was almost immediately withdrawn after its details came to light in July. The Terrorism Information Awareness, or TIA, data-mining initiative was eliminated by Congress – although many analysts believe its research continues on the classified side of the Pentagon's ledger. LifeLog is the latest in a series of controversial programs that have been canceled by Darpa in recent months. However, related Darpa efforts concerning software secretaries and mechanical brains are still moving ahead as planned. "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. Here is an excerpt from the Wired Magazine article: Third is permanent.Ĭredit Scott Lopez and the Kev Baker show for digging up this gem: Your first violation will result in your post or comment being removed, with a warning. Do not try to find a loophole around the rules - we will still ban you. All rules are subject to moderator discretion. All rules subject to moderator discretion/3 strikes. If there is an appropriate tag for your post, you MUST use it. If you think that your bot may be legitimately useful, please contact us. so don't post it here unless it's specifically related to the Mandela effect.Īllow ANY BOT to post on our subreddit. This isn't a place to talk about religion, and it isn't a place to talk about politics. If your post isn't showing up - please don't submit 10 more copies! Message us first. These belong in /r/MandelaJerk, or really wherever you want that isn't here. No fictional stories, satire, jokes, etc. Civil debate will always be allowed - but simply coming here to shut others ideas down will result in a ban. If you have a legitimate concern about a users mental health, contact the mods.Ĭome here to argue. This includes any accusations of being a "bot", "NPC", "insane", "crazy", etc. This subreddit is for CIVIL DISCUSSION of the Mandela effect. Posts must also include a body with specific details indicating why it relates to a known Mandela Effect or the Mandela Effect in general. Thoroughly sum up what your post is about in the title. No low effort posts, including vague titles. Instead, post a comment in the weekly DAE megathread, or depending on what you are asking consider checking out /r/TipOfMyTongue. If your question follows the lines of "does anyone else remember.", do NOT make a post. These type of posts are best suited for /r/GlitchInTheMatrix. For example, we don't know what color your neighbors car is - so don't post about it here if it changes color. No personal changes or "DAE remember?" posts. The Mandela Effect is a group of people realizing they remember something differently than is generally known to be fact - the most famous example of this would be the Berenstain/Berenstein bears.
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