Smartphone app Saga could track your every move

The technology being developed by ARO engineers will reportedly be able to tell you where someone is and what they are up to through use of barometer, cameras, microphones and a phone's location sensors.

MIT Tech Review reports that this new approach to life logging will be available in the Saga app in late summer or early fall.

Running the app should only use about 1% of a device's battery while running behind-the-scenes of your everyday activites.

According to CEO of ARO Andy Hickl, Saga will wake up and check a person's location if, for example, a phone's accelerometer suggest he or she is on the move.

The Saga app is currently available on iOS and Android for free, allowing you to build a lifelog, gain insights into your everyday life and add photos.

You can also pull in information from social networking sites and collect data from other services such as apps FitBit and RunKeeper.

The new technology is currently being internally tested and lead developer of the Android version, Ian Clifton, says that ARO are using a device's microphone to collect short acoustic fingerprints of different places in order to gain insight into location and what a person is doing.

Both sound and light are being sampled to determine specifics.

Saga will then be able to create a comprehensive, automatic record of your life.

Source: MIT Tech Review