Friday, December 3, 2010

Professor Implants Camera in his head #FAIL

First #FAIL! Second this was the professors way of making a statement about technology and how our privacy is constantly infringed upon. Umm #FAIL once again or as Ed Lover would say, C'mon Son!

Amplify’d from www.dnainfo.com

NYU Professor Gets Booted from Guest Lists After Implanting Camera in Back of Head

NYU Professor Implants Camera in the Back of His Head

GREENWICH VILLAGE — An NYU professor who had a camera implanted in the back of his head has been uninvited to friends’ dinner parties, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

The camera in Wafaa Bilal’s head is programmed to take a photograph once every minute, which will then be streamed live on his website starting Dec. 15 and also at the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Qatar starting Dec. 30.

"As a school of the arts, a school whose mission is to educate artists, we place a high value on his right to free expression in his creative work as an artist ...," NYU said in a statement. "We also take seriously the privacy issues his project raises, its impact on our students, and the importance of preserving trust in the pedagogical relationship between a faculty member and students."

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