{"id":1382,"date":"2016-11-01T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:45","slug":"bugged-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2016\/11\/01\/bugged-bugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Bugged bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-594\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-bugged-bugs.jpg\" alt=\"beetle on yellow background, mini-camera for a head\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-bugged-bugs.jpg 200w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-bugged-bugs-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-bugged-bugs-140x140.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>When Mark Zuckerberg posted a picture of himself on Facebook last June, a sharp-eyed observer spotted a piece of tape covering his laptop\u2019s camera. The irony didn\u2019t go unnoticed. Even those of us who don\u2019t control large corporations have reason to be concerned about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2016\/11\/even-bugs-will-be-bugged\/501113\/\">next frontiers in surveillance<\/a>. For example, today many security cameras are easy to spot. But researchers are developing devices that can hide in plain sight, some by mimicking animals, like robotic bugs. If an insect is too obvious, <strong>David Blaauw<\/strong>, an engineer at U-M, is developing \u201cmicro motes\u201d\u2014tiny computers mere millimeters wide that can be equipped with cameras and other sensors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Mark Zuckerberg posted a picture of himself on Facebook last June, a sharp-eyed observer spotted a piece of tape covering his laptop\u2019s camera. The irony didn\u2019t go unnoticed. Even those of us who don\u2019t control large corporations have reason to be concerned about the next frontiers in surveillance. For example, today many security cameras are easy to\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2016\/11\/01\/bugged-bugs\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-1382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-security"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-bugged-bugs.jpg",200,200,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-bugged-bugs-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-bugged-bugs-140x140.jpg",140,140,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-bugged-bugs.jpg",200,200,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-bugged-bugs.jpg",200,200,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-bugged-bugs.jpg",200,200,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-bugged-bugs.jpg",200,200,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-bugged-bugs-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-bugged-bugs.jpg",42,42,false],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-bugged-bugs.jpg",200,200,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-bugged-bugs.jpg",200,200,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-bugged-bugs.jpg",200,200,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"When Mark Zuckerberg posted a picture of himself on Facebook last June, a sharp-eyed observer spotted a piece of tape covering his laptop\u2019s camera. The irony didn\u2019t go unnoticed. Even those of us who don\u2019t control large corporations have reason to be concerned about the next frontiers in surveillance. For example, today many security cameras&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1385,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions\/1385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}