# LifeLog and it's Leagal aspects

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 29, 2003, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lifelog-and-its-leagal-aspects/191682 "2003-07-29T16:22:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![bcullman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bcullman/32/8207_2.png) [@bcullman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bcullman)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lifelog-and-its-leagal-aspects/191682/1 "2003-07-29T16:22:34Z")

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For those of you that do not know what LifeLog is, see here

[http://www.darpa.mil/ipto/solicitations/open/03-30\_PIP.htm](http://www.darpa.mil/ipto/solicitations/open/03-30_PIP.htm)

here is a key concept:  
The key challenge of LifeLog is to make sense of this ongoing sequence of multi-modal transactions and labeled chunks of physical data, by sorting it into discrete “events” and “states” (whose transitions are marked by events) and “threads” (consisting of sequences of events and states) and “episodes” (with beginnings and ends)…

Basically, the military is funding a computer project that a person could wear that would automatically keep track of everything you do… video, sound, descriptions, and time and date references - a automatic, video-like blog.

My question is - once this is populized any nearly everyone has one (like blogs or, farther back, email) will the courts beable to supeonea your memories with these things?