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Eyes Everywhere.(security cameras)

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Byline: Jesse Ellison

Sue Walter used to worry about her house on Florida's Gulf Coast. As a pilot, she often travels for weeks at a time, and her house sits in prime hurricane territory. To check up on things while she is away, she bought a low-cost video surveillance system. Now she logs on to a Web site to see her yard in real time. One day, however, she caught her parents eating food taken from her fridge. "I called them and said, 'You're so busted'," she says.

Although security is the selling point of video surveillance systems, customers are discovering a very different benefit: the ability to spy on people. The devices are affordable and ...

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