Kyle McDonald the 25 year old US artist is being investigated by the US Secret Service over his latest art work that involved studying faces of unsuspecting people looking at a computer, that has been posted onto peoplestaringatcomputers.tumblr.com. McDonald’s suspected breach of the US law relates to his secret installation of custom spyware applications onto Mac computers at two Apple retail stores, that enabled the iSight built-in webcam to snap a photo every minute and upload any detected faces to his site. Secret Service agents tipped off by Apple Corp raided McDonald’s studio seizing his computers, drives and peripherals as evidence of a computer crime under the US Code. McDonald an artist working at the coal face of technology has sort assistance from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Inspired by Ben Davis ow.ly/5RWSz image source Twitter ow.ly/5RWLN People Staring at Computers art project (August 2 2011)

Kyle McDonald the 25 year old US artist is being investigated by the US Secret Service over his latest art work that involved studying faces of unsuspecting people looking at a computer, that has been posted onto peoplestaringatcomputers.tumblr.com. McDonald’s suspected breach of the US law relates to his secret installation of custom spyware applications onto Mac computers at two Apple retail stores, that enabled the iSight built-in webcam to snap a photo every minute and upload any detected faces to his site. Secret Service agents tipped off by Apple Corp raided McDonald’s studio seizing his computers, drives and peripherals as evidence of a computer crime under the US Code. McDonald an artist working at the coal face of technology has sort assistance from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

 

Inspired by Ben Davis http://ow.ly/5RWSz image source Twitter http://ow.ly/5RWLN