So, What's The Latest Alongside Google's Toronto Project?

I know it's Alphabet's Sidewalk Laboratories merely Alphabet is a stupid refer for the belongings fellowship together with Sidewalk Labs solely has refer recognition with the cognoscenti who, frankly, tin move a chip obsessive, pro together with con.
From the Centre for Free Expression at Ryerson University:

Mystery on the Waterfront: How the "Smart City" Allure Led a Major Public Agency inward Toronto Into a Reckless Deal with Big Tech

Once upon a time, Waterfront Toronto (WT) was a high-profile populace way that had largely succeeded inward combining enthusiastic back upwards for upscale waterfront condos with a progressive civic agenda – no hateful feat inward an historic catamenia of increasing political polarization together with urban inequality. For example, zoning bylaws for waterfront developments, seat inward house earlier whatever condo edifice move designed, postulate at to the lowest degree 20% of Further Reading post.

Previously (no obsession here, no sir):
The City of the Future Is a Data-Collection Machine (sensors; IoT; information centers etc)

Further Reading post.

Previously (no obsession here, no sir):
Sidewalk Labs Toronto Update: "Google’s smart metropolis dream is turning into a privacy nightmare"

Further Reading post.

Previously (no obsession here, no sir):
"Are New York’s Free LinkNYC Internet Kiosks Tracking Your Movements?" (GOOG)
Good ideas gone whack-job.
Or, every bit a hard-bitten, to a greater extent than or less mightiness say cynical, journo in ane trial wrote:

"The Urge to Save Humanity is Almost Always 

Only a False-Face for the Urge to Rule It"

—H.L. Mencken*

Further Reading post.

Previously (no obsession here, no sir):
"Google Strategy Teardown: Google Is Turning Itself Into An AI Company As It Seeks To Win New Markets Like Cloud And Transportation" (GOOG)

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Okay, bowing to pop demand, ane more:

Further Reading post.

Previously (no obsession here, no sir):
There Is Something Weird Going On With Google's Sidewalk Labs Project In Toronto (GOOG)

We've been posting on 'smart' cities' inward full general together with Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs inward item for a chip over 3 years, with quite a few of the stories (see afterward the jumps) beingness techno-dystopia stuff.
Here's another, merely to a greater extent than of import are the links instantly following....