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added article Google as a landlord
https://thelogic.co/news/privacy-expert-ann-cavoukian-resigns-as-adviser-to-sidewalk-labs/
== Google as a landlord? A looming feudal nightmare - The Guardian - 2019 ==
To fight a housing crunch of their own creation, tech companies are planning company towns worthy of Gilded Age robber barons
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/11/google-as-a-landlord-a-looming-feudal-nightmare
== Google’s Guinea-Pig City - The Atlantic - 2018 ==
Will Toronto turn its residents into Alphabet’s experiment? The answer has implications for cities everywhere.
https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/01/zoning-reform-house-costs-urban-development-gentrification/581677/
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<blockquote>techsploitation -
https://qz.com/1293874/protestors-in-san-francisco-are-using-electric-scooters-to-blockade-google-buses/
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'''Toronto'''<blockquote>LORINC: Sidewalk Labs and the problem of smart city governancehttp://spacing.ca/toronto/2019/06/25/lorinc-sidewalk-labs-and-the-problem-of-smart-city-governance/</blockquote> <blockquote>"Sidewalk’s proposal rejects democratic government by prescribing new and different oversight and governance for the waterfront, as one observer put it, “pushing back the city’s authority and replacing it with semiprivatized bureaucratic SWAT teams.”</br>'''Toronto, it’s not you — it’s GoogleBy Lauren Jacobs'''https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2019/07/03/toronto-its-not-you-its-google.html</blockquote> '''privatisation of esential essential services and infrastructure tales of woe
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<blockquote>generally, it is stubbornly unprofitable to deliver essential services at scale