Cast-off Gadgets Spy on Owners (on Purpose for a Change)

Eric Smalley writes "For the project, dubbed Backtalk, researchers sent refurbished Netbooks to developing countries via nonprofit organizations. They set up the computers to record location and pictures, and send the data home to MIT--with their new owners' consent... The MIT team used the data to build visual narratives about the computers' new lives."

Re:It's ok we have "permisison"

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Here's how they went about it:

http://senseable.mit.edu/backtalk/ [mit.edu]

Now you can provide a deeper explanation about how it was unethical, rather than accusatory hand-waving.