Cat-Stalking Map Lets the Internet Know Where Your Kitty Lives

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Hide your kids, hide your wife — hide your cats

There's a new data visualization project in town called "I Know Where Your Cat Lives." It crawls the Internet collecting metadata — specifically, the 15 million images tagged "cat" — and then creates the perfect cyberstalking map detailing each feline's exact whereabouts.

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Created by Florida State University art professor Owen Mundy, the project functions in two ways: as a thought experiment in how we approach online privacy when it's not our own privacy, and also as a resource for people on the Internet who just really like humor and felines Read more...

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