Opposition to Sidewalk Labs in Toronto
To me the most of the ways that I can think of a city being smart are not related to surveillance.<p>If there is some system that is supposed to benefit the public then its designs should be public and subject to public approval.<p>What would be reasonable would be something like open source designs and protocols and maybe an electronic bidding system for projects.<p>But it sounds like its one company embedding whatever spy-tech they want and controlling everything over a large area behind closed doors.<p>I actually am really looking forward to smart cities.  But smart as in high tech and advanced, not smart as in monopolistic surveillance dystopia.