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Troy Hunt investigated the Park Assist powered car search feature in the Westfield mobile app and found that due to an apparent misconfiguration all the information that was being stored about all the cars in its car park (from 2,550 sensors) was available via a public API.
You can read more on his blog.
(via Dan W)
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The Catalogue - RFID and CCTV simulation, by Chris Oakley (2004)
“Crystallising a vision of ‘us seen by them’, The Catalogue explores the codification of humanity on behalf of corporate entities. Through the manipulation of footage captured from life in the retail environment, it places the viewer into the position of a remote and dispassionate agency, observing humanity as a series of units whose value is defined by their spending capacity and future needs.”
(Via Adam Greenfield)
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Trash | Track is an investigation into understanding the ‘removal-chain’ in urban areas. TrashTrack uses hundreds of small, smart, location aware tags, which are attached to different types of trash so that these items can be followed through the city’s waste management system, revealing the final journey of our everyday objects in a series of real time visualisations.
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Minority Report comes true (again). In Tokyo, facial recognition technology in billboards read your face and run tailored ads.
Also see: CNN - Ads with cameras and Quividi.
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Agent trails through a virtual IKEA store, as modeled by the VR Centre for the Built Environment at University College London.
Via Pruned.
