NYT: Webcams See All (Tortoise, Watch Your Back) by Quentin Hardy (http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/08\/technology\/webcams-see-all-tortoise-watch-your-back.html?hpw&rref=technology):<\/p>\n
In the Sahara, the African spurred tortoise lives for about a century. Thanks to modern technology, one named Franky has a shot at immortality.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe gets about 10,000 viewers a month,\u201d said Donnie Cook, the owner of Lou\u2019s Pet Shop in Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich., where Franky, an easygoing 17-year-old, spends his days transmitting over the Internet a nonstop tortoise-eye view of the world. \u201cWe get people from at least 30 states, plus Italy, France.\u201d A family in California has even sent the store $50 to keep Franky in lettuce.<\/p>\n
Why should the National Security Agency have all the fun?<\/p>\n
Franky\u2019s fame illustrates the increasing surveillance of nearly everything by private citizens. Thanks to advances in miniaturization and cheap digital storage, tiny cameras are moving onto houses, people and nature. …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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