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Cory Doctorow / 9:02 am Mon, Dec 17, 2018

Google's secretive, data-hungry private city within Toronto will be much larger than previously disclosed

Google's Sidewalk Labs convinced Toronto to let it build an all-surveilling "smart city" on a small patch of lakefront and then promptly shenaniganized things, breaking all its privacy and transparency promises and prompting a mass exodus of its advisory board members and other watchdogs. Read the rest “Google's secretive, data-hungry private city within Toronto will be much larger than previously disclosed”

Cory Doctorow / 2:19 pm Thu, Oct 4, 2018

Advisor quits Google Toronto's "smart city" project over privacy concerns

Google sister company Sidewalk Labs is building a creepy, heavily surveilled "smart city" in the midst of Toronto. Read the rest “Advisor quits Google Toronto's "smart city" project over privacy concerns”