Big Brother will know exactly where you are

Smart Cities Week in San Diego is coming up next month, but is California’s second-largest city one of America’s dumbest places when it comes to knowing about what is going on in high-technology’s netherworld of privacy intrusion? Santee mayor John Minto So say some of those privy to details of plans by Mayor Kevin Faulconer to obtain massive caches of user location and related data from providers of so-called dockless scooters.

“The operators will provide the City with detailed monthly reports that will be useful for Climate Action Plan monitoring and mobility planning,” according to a February 14 presentation by the mayor’s office to the city council’s Active Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, which voted to give its blessings to the proposal, eventually destined for the full council.

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