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

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Cast-off Gadgets Spy on Owners (on Purpose for a Change) 73

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday July 25, 2011 @11:41AM from the i-see-what-you-did-there dept.

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."

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