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Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios Momentum for smart cities — fed by big promises from industry and big hopes by government — is being slowed by a wave of public skepticism, Axios’ Kim Hart and Aïda Amer report. Alphabet-owned Sidewalk Labs, which has proposed a futuristic smart-city development for Toronto’s waterfront, this month pledged not to sell personal data from the project […]
Smart Cities News12 Jul 2019by SmartCitiesWorld news team As research finds ransomware attacks against governments on the rise, the US Conference of Mayors has passed a resolution calling on cities not to pay assailants after cyber-attacks. Baltimore is one of the cities that refused to pay a ransom after a cyber-attack The US Conference of […]
Project with Google’s Sidewalk Labs comes under increasing scrutiny amid concerns over privacy and data harvestingCities is supported by About this content Leyland Cecco in Toronto A “smart city” project in Canada has hit yet another snag, as mounting delays and privacy concerns threaten the controversial development along the Toronto’s eastern waterfront. The 12-acre Quayside project, a partnership […]