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The risks of becoming a Google city

Rider, David
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/03/02/the-risks-of-becoming-a-google-city.html

Publisher:  Toronto Star
Date Written:  05/03/2018
Year Published:  2018  
Resource Type:  Article

Plans for a high tech custom-connected community by US company Google raises significant concern from experts. With sensors monitoring and recording daily life there are troubling questions in matters of freedom and privacy, as well as potentially negative implications for the poor and less privileged residents of the city who stand little to gain from efficient privately operated communities.

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Waterfront Toronto's eagerness to sign a deal with a Google sister company has alarmed experts who warn cities are easy prey for Big Tech and its unquenchable thirst for data.

"Google isn't going to be creating these urban innovations for the public good or the common welfare," says Jathan Sadowski, a postdoctoral research fellow in Smart Cities at the University of Sydney in Australia.

"They’ll be doing things - as we should expect them to - that will benefit their own interests as a private company, as one of the most profitable, most wealthy companies in the world."

"The Google-Toronto partnership is a really high-profile thing and it's likely to set the terms and conditions for how these partnerships happen in other places around the world. Companies are carving out portions of cities as their own kind of sovereign territories."

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