Cat Photos Expose Privacy Concerns

A new web site boasts the largest tracking database for cat pictures in the world. In order to post the pictures and identify the cat’s geographic location, the site gleans tracking data available on photos posted on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.   Owen Mundy highlights privacy concern by tracking cats Owen Mundy, an assistant professor of art, used a Florida State University supercomputer to create the web site “I Know Where Your Cat Lives,” a report in the New York Times notes. Mundy is actually a privacy activist trying to make a point. She created the site as a way…