Japanese mobile knows more about your life than you do

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2006

TOKYO (AFP) — 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 has 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.

Users can...