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Google, through its sister company Side Walk Labs, is experimenting with so-called "smart cities", where urban equipment participates in mass-surveillance of the populations.
== Privacy expert Ann Cavoukian resigns as adviser to Sidewalk Labs - The Logic - 2018 ==
sadly paywalled; free part is this:
Ann Cavoukian, a world-leading privacy expert, has resigned as an adviser to Sidewalk Labs on its proposed Toronto smart city development. Cavoukian sent a letter advising the company of her resignation Friday. In the letter, she expressed concerns regarding Sidewalk Labs recent digital governance proposals, specifically, the possibility that not all personal data would be de-identified at the source—a concern she said she raised with Sidewalk Labs early last month. Sidewalk Labs told The Logic it is committed to de-identifying data, but that it can’t control what third-parties do. “With all due respect,” she wrote about data not being de-identified at source, “that is not acceptable.” “If personally identifiable data are not de-identified at source, we will be creating another central database of personal information (controlled by whom?), that may be used without data subjects’ consent, that will be exposed to the risks of hacking and unauthorized access,” she said in her statement. “As we all know, existing methods of encryption are not infallible and may be broken, potentially exposing the personal data of Waterfront Toronto residents! Why take such risks?”
https://thelogic.co/news/privacy-expert-ann-cavoukian-resigns-as-adviser-to-sidewalk-labs/
== Google’s Guinea-Pig City - The Atlantic - 2018 ==
http://www.rosalux-nyc.org/wp-content/files_mf/morozovandbria_eng_final55.pdf
==assembly of related resources, please expand!==
cities for citizens
sustainable and dynamic urbanism, materialist political economy for cities under adverse circumstances of rapid privatisation, speculation , gentrification and segregation.
pushing back on the smart city solutionist narrative
case studies
Berlin
--> related initiative "Google is not a good neighbour"
https://www.google-ist-kein-guter-nachbar.de/english-1/actions/
before FOG it was FuckOffGuggenheim... and they really gave up
https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-protests-prove-tolerance-is-a-two-way-street/a-15894900
and FuckOffDercon - gentrifying the Volksbühne (a legendary theater in the center of Berlin
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/theater/chris-dercon-quits-volksbuehne.html
Barcelona (Morozow & Bria's "Green" Smart City approach
http://www.rosalux-nyc.org/wp-content/files_mf/morozovandbria_eng_final55.pdf
NY:
Hudson Yards is a billionaire’s fantasy city and you never have to leave — provided you can pay for it.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/hudson-yard-billionaires-fantasy-city.html
LA:
movement against fortress city districts and trickle-down housing
https://medium.com/@LATenantsUnion/dropping-the-hammer-on-yimbyism-97724dfdb6a9
https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/01/zoning-reform-house-costs-urban-development-gentrification/581677/
SF (the original FOG!)
techsploitation -
https://qz.com/1293874/protestors-in-san-francisco-are-using-electric-scooters-to-blockade-google-buses/
privatisation of esential services and infrastructure tales of woe
generally, it is stubbornly unprofitable to deliver essential services at scale
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/17/the-high-price-we-all-pay-for-the-failures-of-privatisation
Jomo Kwame Sundaram, former economics professor and United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development
http://www.ipsnews.net/2016/10/privatization-the-problem-rarely-the-solution/
https://www.networkideas.org/news-analysis/2019/03/promoting-privatization/
"race to the bottom" How Outsourcing Public Services Rewards Corporations and Punishes the Middle Class
http://www.inthepublicinterest.org/wp-content/uploads/Race-to-the-bottom.pdf
Public transportation
https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/privatisation-of-dublin-bus-routes-the-beginning-of-race-to-the-bottom-tds-warn-867983.html
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/16/the-expensive-disaster-that-is-bus-privatisation
Rail
rail privatisation can only be successful where there is population density, eventually all but the most important stations will be shut down
https://www.tokyoreview.net/2018/10/japan-railway-privatization/
An illusion of success: The consequences of British rail privatisation
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0155998214000416
The rail billionaires The privatisation of British Rail has proved a disastrous failure. Without big changes, things are going to get worse
https://www.economist.com/business/1999/07/01/the-rail-billionaires
Water
UN University
https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/water-privatisation-a-worldwide-failure
Smart Cities
"competitive urbanism"
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0042098015597162
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/dec/17/truth-smart-city-destroy-democracy-urban-thinkers-buzzphrase
https://planning.org/planning/2019/mar/smartcities/
Adam Greenfield : Against the Smart City
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/spark/227-tasting-data-smart-cities-craft-and-design-facts-on-fax-1.2847907/against-the-smart-city-1.2847908
https://speedbird.wordpress.com/
Songdo
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/business/article/2137838/south-koreas-smart-city-songdo-not-quite-smart-enough
http://gjss.org/sites/default/files/issues/chapters/papers/GJSS%20Vol%2012-2%201%20Benedikt_0.pdf
precrime
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22530123-600-pre-crime-software-recruited-to-track-gang-of-thieves/
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/jun/25/predicting-crime-lapd-los-angeles-police-data-analysis-algorithm-minority-report
politicians raising concerns
https://twitter.com/lydia_kou
http://www.creativespacesandcities.com/
comic relief
https://internetofshit.net/soon
