--- title: I Know Where Your Cat Lives Website description: New data visualization tracks geotags of cats on social networks. canonical: https://time.com/3019671/i-know-where-your-cat-lives-website-data-visualization/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-22T17:59:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:05:58.664Z og:title: This Website Knows Where Your Cat Lives og:description: New data visualization tracks geotags of cats on social networks. og:url: https://time.com/3019671/i-know-where-your-cat-lives-website-data-visualization/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt153f60ef197c2ef0/69869cac06f2c164fa330017/492290913.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5760 og:image:height: 3240 og:image:alt: I Know Where Your Cat Lives og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Website Knows Where Your Cat Lives twitter:description: New data visualization tracks geotags of cats on social networks. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt153f60ef197c2ef0/69869cac06f2c164fa330017/492290913.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Website Knows Where Your Cat Lives > Sponsored content. 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Cat Cafe Opens Up In Manhattan_ by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jul 22, 2014 5:59 PM UTC  Perky Face Perky Face Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jul 22, 2014 5:59 PM UTC Attention all 4.9 million users of the #Catstagram hashtag: You’re being watched. Same for the #RichCatsOfInstagram pictures and the 16 million photos tagged simply #Cats on Instagram. [Mashable](http://mashable.com/2014/07/22/cat-stalking-map/) points out that a new data visualization project called “[I Know Where Your Cat Lives](http://iknowwhereyourcatlives.com/cat/8ec76559d5)” is trolling the internet and collecting metadata in your #adorable #cat #picture. Using the geotags embedded in the metadata in public photos, the project collects the information and puts the cat’s location on a map perfect for cyberstalking your fuzzy feline friend. Thank goodness cats don’t read Orwell. The site features cats from everywhere around the globe — a giant red tom in Chiba, Japan to a grey fuzzball kitten in Apulia, Italy to a kitten cuddled with his mom in Queensland, Australia — all available for gawking at and cooing over at the click of a button. The project was created by Florida State University art professor Owen Mundy, who views “I Know Where Your Cat Lives” as both a thought-provoking experiment into how we view online privacy, as well as a sort of Tinder for cat fans filled with a seemingly endless stream of kitten pics for the millions of cat fans who populate the Internet. The site is currently running a [Kickstarter](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1910822604/i-know-where-your-cat-lives) campaign to help fund web hosting and continuing the project. **MORE**: [The Hottest New Exercise Equipment Is a Giant Hamster Wheel…for Cats](http://time.com/3018489/cat-hamster-wheel-kickstarter/) **MORE**: [There’s Now Facial Recognition Software for Cats](http://time.com/2983281/theres-now-facial-recognition-software-for-cats/) ## Transcript Welcome to Cat Cafe by Purina ONE. The goal of what we're doing here is trying to start a conversation about cat health. And what better place to do that than over a cup of coffee with some friends in a cafe? [ MUSIC ] We brought the first cat cafe to North America. You know, you can grab a cattachino, with a cute little cat face in it. You could come in. You could be among these happy, healthy adoptable cats. This is Valerie. She's been camped out on me for about an hour now, just kind of shifting positions, enjoying all of the photography. [ MUSIC ] For the adoption process, what you'd have to do is you'd have to come down here and talk to one of our adoption counselors. They fill out an application with you and we ask you for some references. And we would approve the adoption on the same day. People love the cats. And so this is a place where you can come and sit and talk with like- minded people about cat health and be among cats. I just wanted to look at cats. Yeah, I really like them. 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