Yesterday, Waterfront Toronto unanimously approved the continuation of Sidewalk Labs’s plans for “Quayside,” a privatised, surveillance-oriented “smart city” that has been mired in controversy since its earliest days, including secret bullying campaigns, mass resignations of privacy advisors, lies that drastically understated the scope of the project, civil liberties lawsuits, and denunciations by the indigenous elders who were consulted on the project.
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Canadian Civil Liberties Association sues Toronto, Ontario, and Canada over the plan for a Google Sidewalk Labs “smart city” in Toronto
Sidewalk Labs is the division of Alphabet/Google that builds “smart city” technology; their most ambitious project to date is a massive privatised city-within-a-city planned for Toronto’s lakeshore — a project that received secretly approval to be much larger than was announced, a fact that Sidewalk lied about.
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