People Staring at Computers Project: How to Hack NY Apple Store computers to take portrait pictures.

A project by Kyle McDonald that automatically posts pictures of people staring at computers.

“People Staring at Computers” is a photographic intervention.

I wrote a simple application that took one picture every minute. If it found a face, it uploaded the photo to my server. I installed the app around NYC over three days, collecting more than a thousand photos.( read more ) via fffff.at


by Kyle McDonald

But finally, Kyle had some problems with this project:

"A Brooklyn-based artist is being investigated by Apple and the Secret Service after installing spy camera software on New York Apple Retail Store computers that took pictures of customers and sent them to a remote server." ( read more) via appleinsider.com