People Staring at Computers is an art project and the name of a tumblr blog by Kyle McDonald. The project involved studying faces of people looking at computers. The photos were gathered by going to Apple retail stores and secretly installing an application on Macs that would snap a photo using the Mac's built-in webcam iSight every minute and uploading photos if a face of an unsuspecting customer was detected.
Kyle McDonald was investigated by the US Secret Service under US Code Title 18 / 1030. Kyle McDonald has tweeted:
@secretservice just stopped by to investigate peoplestaringatcomputers.tumblr.com and took my laptop. please assume they're reading any emails you send me.—@kcimc, July 7, 2011 tweet http://twitter.com/#!/kcimc/status/88956546972778496
He has also stated that the Electronic Frontier Foundation has advised not to comment on the ongoing investigation.[1]
On July 14th, 2011, the video and tumblr were removed. After receiving a letter from Apple, FAT Lab administrator Evan Roth censored the original post by replacing every face with the image of Apple CEO Steve Jobs.