I think a better title would include <Digitized> before <Life>. The problem with relying too much on things like photos to recall your memories of previous eve

I think a better title would include <Digitized> before <Life>. The problem with relying too much on things like photos to recall your memories of previous events is that typically the photos overwrite the actual memories, i.e. you lose your built-in record of sensory impressions of events. Used sparingly, it's probably okay, but working on improving your built-in memory is also a good idea (i.e. the whole memory palace approach). This kind of thing could be a great aid for early-stage Alzheimer's patients, however. As far as being used for mass surveillance and social control by authoritarian states bent on managing their captive populations in some dystopian social-credit-scored plantation-labor system, well, I imagine the NSA's DARPA-sourced 'Total Information Awareness" programs are well ahead of anything seen in public by now.