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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 ==
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/21/google-urban-cities-planning-data
Sidewalk family tree
https://twitter.com/adrianshort/status/1118420578271137792
==some choice quotes from Morozov and Bria's RLS paper==
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
'''hashtags'''
##fuckoffgoogle
##blocksidewalk Toronto initiative to stop Sidewalk Labs
German language anti-gentrification-related
##Mietenwahnsinn Berlin / Germany anti-gentrification initiative
##Verdrängung People forced out of their apartments
##Enteignen Expropriate! the large property owners
'''case studies'''
'''Berlin'''
<blockquote> --> 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
</blockquote>
'''Barcelona''' (Morozow & Bria's "Green" Smart City approach
<blockquote>http://www.rosalux-nyc.org/wp-content/files_mf/morozovandbria_eng_final55.pdf
</blockquote>
'''NY''':
<blockquote>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
</blockquote>
'''LA''':
<blockquote>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/
</blockquote>
'''SF''' (the original FOG!)
<blockquote>techsploitation -
https://qz.com/1293874/protestors-in-san-francisco-are-using-electric-scooters-to-blockade-google-buses/
</blockquote>
'''privatisation of esential services and infrastructure tales of woe
'''
<blockquote>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
</blockquote>
'''Public transportation
'''
<blockquote>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
</blockquote>
'''Rail
'''
<blockquote>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
</blockquote>
'''Water'''
<blockquote>UN University
https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/water-privatisation-a-worldwide-failure
Paris remunicipalizes water and saves millions
http://www.shareable.net/blog/how-water-utilities-are-returning-to-public-management-in-france
</blockquote>
'''Smart Cities
'''
<blockquote>"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/
The trouble with Smart Cities
https://www.axios.com/smart-cities-toronto-sidewalk-labs-las-vegas-cb0451e5-0b98-46c4-9ba3-4a7a04eb4ca7.html
Trading privacy for survival is another tax on the poor
https://www.fastcompany.com/90317495/another-tax-on-the-poor-surrendering-privacy-for-survival
</blockquote>
'''Songdo'''
<blockquote>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
</blockquote>
'''precrime'''
<blockquote>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
</blockquote>
'''politicians raising concerns
'''
<blockquote>https://twitter.com/lydia_kou
http://www.creativespacesandcities.com/
</blockquote>
'''comic relief
'''
<blockquote>https://internetofshit.net/soon
</blockquote>
