Quote from: BADecker on November 05, 2018, 08:42:21 AM

It seems that Canada is building one... or actually it is Google building it in Canada. Now some of the people working with setting the whole thing up have found that it is a smart city that is being built for surveillance rather than privacy. See: https://www.technocracy.news/googles-sidewalk-labs-smart-cities-for-dumb-humans/:

Quote from: https://www.technocracy.news/googles-sidewalk-labs-smart-cities-for-dumb-humans/

An interesting thing happened recently in the ongoing saga that is Googles attempt, through its subsidiary Sidewalk Labs, to build a private, fully surveilled microcity inside of Toronto. The privacy expert Google had hired to assuage concerns over the dangers of a neighborhood built to collect data on its inhabitants, has stepped down.

A year into Googles efforts to build a mini smart city on Torontos waterfront, Ann Cavoukian, the former privacy commissioner for the province of Ontario, announced that she was leaving her role as a consultant for the project. I imagined us creating a Smart City of Privacy, as opposed to a Smart City of Surveillance, she explained in a letter. Your personal information, your privacy is critical, Cavoukian has said. It is not just a fundamental human right. It forms the foundation of our freedom.

Its commendable, this repudiation of Google on behalf of fundamental rights but also rather astounding if were being honestand charitableto imagine a privacy expert believing that Google had ever planned to build anything other than a smart city of surveillance. Cavoukians involvement in the Quayside project, named for the Toronto neighborhood where the proposed neighborhood will be built, had focused on the importance of masking the identity of people connected to the harvested data. I felt I had no choice because I had been told by Sidewalk Labs that all of the data collected will be de-identified at source, she said.

I think that's the sad and bitter part to this tech revolution. We are somehow exponentially improvising the tech but falling into tech slavery where nothing is private and anybody whenever they wish can control you. We've already seen this with China using mass citizen surveillance.

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