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  • surveillance city Toronto business and government signal full support for Sidewalk Labs' dominance of the city and beyond Rosemary Frei
  • dystopia watch Talking with the Left Field podcast about Sidewalk Labs's plan to build a surveilling "smart city" in Toronto Cory Doctorow
  • waterfront toronto Public treated to obfuscation at Waterfront Toronto meeting on negotiations with Google sister company over surveillance district Rosemary Frei
  • means testing Sidewalk Labs' quiet plan for Canada's banks to manage a national digital ID for health care and housing Lilian Radovac
  • quayside Toronto approves Google's surveillance city, despite leaks revealing Orwellian plans Cory Doctorow
  • sidewalk labs Leaked document reveals that Sidewalk Labs' Toronto plans for private taxation, private roads, charter schools, corporate cops and judges, and punishment for people who choose privacy Cory Doctorow
  • digital smallpox Indigenous elder on Sidewalk Labs's Toronto consultation: "like being given blankets and gun powder and whisky to trade for our participation" Cory Doctorow
  • high-tech feudalism Critical essays (including mine) discuss Toronto's plan to let Google build a surveillance-based "smart city" along its waterfront Cory Doctorow
  • ccla Canadian Civil Liberties Association sues Toronto, Ontario, and Canada over the plan for a Google Sidewalk Labs "smart city" in Toronto Cory Doctorow
  • quayside Sorting the spin from the facts: how big can the surveilling city that Sidewalk Labs plans for Toronto get? Rosemary Frei
  • world's tallest freestanding monument to surveillance Google's secretive, data-hungry private city within Toronto will be much larger than previously disclosed Cory Doctorow
  • Saadia Muzaffar Advisor quits Google Toronto's "smart city" project over privacy concerns Cory Doctorow
  • taking jane jacobs in vain How Google's Sidewalk Labs has outmaneuvered Toronto in its bid to build a "smart city" Cory Doctorow
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