The article lead me to https://vimeo.com/23651106 (timelapse of himself staring at the computer over 3 days) which lead me to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0bM0iV0Ht8 (People Staring at Computers)
People Staring at Computers
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#12Obligatory: Don't Talk to Police https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
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#13Obligatory: Don't Talk to Police https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
More succinct:
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#14yeah no. installing spyware and taking pictures of people without their consent is shady af.
also the logic of “oh the apple store has glass windows” therefore i can do this illegal shit is mind boggling
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#15While interesting, this project does not seem ethically sound. Not to mention illegal. I think the author got lucky having the case dropped.
Yeah, this story is definitely burying the lede. The author installed software on computers in Apple Stores, without Apple's permission. That software took photos of visitors to the apple store, and transmitted it to the author. Definitely shady activity, and when the information about how the author got the photos - is entirely unsurprising that they were raided.
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#16I find myself wondering how old this man was when he did this. It kinda feels like the sort of antics someone gets up to before their brain has fully developed the capacity of understanding things like "consequences". Although it got him in the NY Times and that's pretty good from the perspective of "all publicity is good publicity" I guess. He's wikinotable but neither the wikipedia page nor his website has a date of birth.
The earliest work listed on his site is some Processing sketches from 2004; this piece was from 2011, seven years later.
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#17Some people don't know why must not do something.
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#19While interesting, this project does not seem ethically sound. Not to mention illegal. I think the author got lucky having the case dropped.
Yeah, this story is definitely burying the lede. The author installed software on computers in Apple Stores, without Apple's permission. That software took photos of visitors to the apple store, and transmitted it to the author. Definitely shady activity, and when the information about how the author got the photos - is entirely unsurprising that they were raided.
> The author installed software on computers in Apple Stores, without Apple's permission
They had at least some level of permission:
> I saw people taking pictures inside all the time, so I just had to double check with an employee.
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> We got situated in the store, double checked with an employee that it was ok to shoot video, and I triggered the slideshow
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#20yeah no. installing spyware and taking pictures of people without their consent is shady af. also the logic of “oh the apple store has glass windows” therefore i can do this illegal shit is mind boggling
It wasn't illegal, hence why no charges were ever filed.