Facebook gets into lifelogging with their timeline feature

CNN coverage:

With 'real-time' apps, Facebook is always watching

(CNN) -- A couple years ago, a Microsoft researcher named Gordon Bell embarked on a personal experiment: He would wear a video camera around his neck all the time and keep this "life recorder" always turned on, so it would record everything he did.

It was like an external memory drive for his brain, he wrote in a book called "Total Recall."

Sounds pretty sci-fi, right? Not so much. The "real-time sharing" updates Facebook announced Thursday aim to do something quite similar -- only for the Internet instead of in real life.

 With 'Timeline' feature, Facebook goes eternal (or at least tries to)

"Timeline is the story of your life," Zuckerberg said.

Facebook and the law

A little while ago, I spoke at the Corporate e-Discovery Forum, where you find the legal experts who deal with electronic discovery. These folks really got the Total Recall message: "this is coming, and we'd better start getting ready," said one attendee. Already, this community is beginning to grapple with how much the law should protect the privacy of one's e-memories. I noticed this quote in a paper they were discussing about facebook and e-discovery:

The law in this area is just beginning to unfold. Its evolution will say a lot about who and what we are.