{"id":39683,"date":"2018-10-25T18:39:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T23:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39683"},"modified":"2018-10-25T18:39:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T23:39:48","slug":"colonizing-experiment-in-surveillance-capitalism-privacy-expert-resigns-from-google-backed-smart-city-project-over-surveillance-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39683","title":{"rendered":"\u201cColonizing Experiment in Surveillance Capitalism\u201d: Privacy Expert Resigns From Google-Backed Smart City Project Over Surveillance Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A privacy expert tasked with protecting personal data within a Google-backed\u00a0smart city project has resigned as her pro-privacy guidelines would largely be ignored\u00a0by participants.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI imagined us creating a Smart City of Privacy, as opposed to a Smart City of Surveillance,\u201d Ann Cavoukian, the former privacy commissioner of Ontario, wrote in a resignation letter<\/a> to Google\u00a0sister company Sidewalk Labs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt I had no choice because I had been told by Sidewalk Labs that all of the data collected will be de-identified at source,\u201d she added.<\/ins><\/p>\n

Cavoukian was an acting consultant involved in the\u00a0plan by Canada\u2019s Waterfront Toronto to develop a\u00a0smart city neighborhood in the city\u2019s Quayside development. She had created an initiative called Privacy by Design that aimed to ensure citizens\u2019 personal data would be protected.<\/p>\n

Once it became apparent that citizen privacy could not be guaranteed, Cavoukian decided it was time to leave the project:<\/p>\n

But then, at a Thursday meeting, Cavoukian reportedly realized such anonymization protocols could not be guaranteed. She told the Candian news outlet that Sidewalk Labs revealed at that meeting that their organization could commit to her guidelines, but other involved groups would not be required to abide by them.<\/p>\n

Cavoukian realized third parties could possibly have access to identifiable data gathered through the project. \u201cWhen I heard that, I said, \u2018I\u2019m sorry. I can\u2019t support this. I have to resign because you committed to embedding privacy by design into every aspect of your operation,\u2019\u201d she told Global News. \u2013 Gizmodo<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Being\u00a0touted as \u201cthe world\u2019s first neighborhood built from the internet up,\u201d the Google designed smart city is set to deploy an array of cameras and sensors that detect pedestrians at traffic lights or alert cleanup crews when garbage bins overflow,\u00a0reports The Globe and Mail<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cColonizing Experiment in Surveillance Capitalism\u201d: Privacy Expert Resigns From Google-Backed Smart City Project Over Surveillance Concerns A privacy expert tasked with protecting personal data within a Google-backed\u00a0smart city project has resigned as her pro-privacy guidelines would largely be ignored\u00a0by participants. \u201cI imagined us creating a Smart City of Privacy, as opposed to a Smart City […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22577,103,378,15463,15462,22576,765,19381,803],"class_list":["post-39683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-ann-cavoukian","tag-canada","tag-google","tag-joseph-jankowski","tag-planet-free-will","tag-sidewalk-labs","tag-surveillance","tag-surveillance-capitalism","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39684,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39683\/revisions\/39684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}