If the above description taken from the Zeitgeist packages doesn't sound useful to you, or possibly even makes you worry about security implications, you may agree with me and want to remove Zeitgeist. Linuxaria had an article how to do this for Ubuntu, which inspired me to write this tutorial for Linux Mint.Zeitgeist is a service which logs the user's activities and events (files opened, websites visited, conversations held with other people, etc.) and makes the relevant information available to other applications.
It serves as a comprehensive activity log and also makes it possible to determine relationships between items based on usage patterns.
This tutorial was tested on Linux Mint 13 MATE and Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon. You may also want to remove the software from Linux Mint 13 Xfce, though Zeitgeist is not active on that edition (so only perform step 2). Zeitgeist isn't installed on Linux Mint 13 KDE, though that has its own similar service in the form of Nepomuk.
There are three steps to removing Zeitgeist:
1. Stop the Zeitgeist daemon:
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zeitgeist-daemon --quit
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sudo apt-get --purge autoremove activity-log-manager-common activity-log-manager-control-center zeitgeist zeitgeist-core zeitgeist-datahub
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sudo rm -fr {/root,/home/*}/.local/share/zeitgeist