Toronto: Google's Smart City Dream is Turning into a Privacy Nightmare

in #informationwar6 years ago

"Sidewalk Labs, an Alphabet division focused on smart cities, is caught in a battle over information privacy. The team has lost its lead expert and consultant, Ann Cavoukian, over a proposed data trust that would approve and manage the collection of information inside Quayside, a conceptual smart neighborhood in Toronto. Cavoukian, the former information and privacy commissioner for Ontario, disagrees with the current plan because it would give the trust power to approve data collection that isn't anonymized or "de-identified" at the source. "I had a really hard time with that," she told Engadget. "I just couldn't... I couldn't live with that." https://www.engadget.com/2018/10/26/sidewalk-labs-ann-cavoukian-smart-city/?fbclid=IwAR0sQNlE35nPREarydf1hIRr6Gx6qWIS-y5RrTce1_ww2s-Hb1xhejyzXs0
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