Communities Against Rider Surveillance (CARS)

Communities Against Rider Surveillance (CARS)

par | Mar 2, 2020 | Cities

Getty Images This is capitalism applied to ownership of data. We are too numerous on this planet now and too urbanised to consider that a laissez-faire policy of the type promulgated by Uber and CARS can assume the responsibilities that need to be assumed by a...
Smart Cities should get Back to Basics

Smart Cities should get Back to Basics

par | Mar 2, 2020 | Cities

SHUTTERSTOCK/EKAPHON MANEECHOT The basics of what smart cities are is grounded in capturing data, using data management and digital communications techologies to share and enhanced understanding of what the urban metabolic processes are, to make them more effcient and...
San Diego’s cameras on streetlights

San Diego’s cameras on streetlights

par | Mar 1, 2020 | Cities

↑   Smart Street light camera at the corner of 72nd and Saranac. (John Gibbins/John Gibbins/The San Diego Union-Tribune) Another story here about surveillance and reactions of citizens based on fears of invaison of privacy          by LYNDSAY WINKLEY, TERI FIGUEROA ...