July 23, 2014
The self-surveillance world
See anyone you know? (click to embiggen)
This is a screenshot from I know where your cat lives, a project at Florida State University that is intended to illustrate the amount of detailed information available from location-tagged online photographs, without being too creepy — just creepy enough.
(via Robert Kosara and Keith Ng)
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »
They may know where the cat lives, but they can’t tell the difference between a cat and a person judging by the photo at the far right of the embedded image. (Maybe she is called Cat).
10 years ago
It isn’t that they can’t, it’s that the person labelling the photo can’t.
10 years ago
It was pretty fun – I had a look at Auckland zoo and Wellington zoo and mostly the cats appear locked up although I wouldn’t go for a walk on Wellington’s southern walkway. ;->
At Auckland “they”‘ve mistaken a red panda for a cat but it’s not too bad because it’s been taken through foliage and facially it does look pretty cat-like – wikipedia says it’s also known as the “red cat-bear”.
10 years ago