Memory as Cloud Service

Companies are building always‑on 'memoromes' that store and recall everything a person experiences, promising frictionless, perfect recall. If true, this turns personal memory into a cloud service with attendant privacy, legal, social and cognitive dependencies — and it changes what it means to know or forget. — Treating memory as a cloud service raises urgent public questions about consent, surveillance, data ownership, inequality of cognitive augmentation, and legal evidentiary status.