Mobile knows more about your life than you do

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For those who relish looking back on the small, often inconsequential details of their lives, a Japanese company has come up with a "Big Brother" mobile network that makes up where human memory fails.

Japan's number two telecom operator KDDI Corp said Monday that it had developed a server that keeps a record of the smallest events in a person's electronic life and lets others sift through them.

"Lifelog Pod" jots down every activity a person makes through a cellphone or computer, including taking photographs, reading barcodes, searching for a restaurant, listening to music, organizing travel or managing money.

While some may loathe the thought of an omniscient network, the company said it could prove a way to make friends.

[More here] (http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=117067)

[muppet]

you can read barcodes with your phone?

[vantastic]

Not too sure if they meant just mobiles themselves... perhaps it is just a thing for all technology, seeing as a barcode scanner gets data from a central database in most cases... it could be feasible that it would alert this monitoring system with info of which products were scanned by someone... *shrug*

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Either way I don't really like the idea of a device that can record my actions to be browsed by other people. To me that's a bit too much invasion of privacy. I mean I know people can access my computer and look at my history of sites or programs I've used but at least I have a little control over who can access the information and what information I want to provide to the public.

Plain ol' logging of your every move freaks me out. The CIA, are listening to us. I can feel it. *cowers behind desk*