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How viable is to have the benefits of smart cities without all the surveillance apparatus that comes with it in the actual state of the technology and politics?

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[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah this is a tricky one. Modern gold standards are to use cameras to recognize pedestrians and cyclists to give them intersection priority. This is a big benefit if designed properly but video data this way poses a huge privacy/surveillance risk.

I suppose maybe there would be a way to process the footage locally and delete it as soon as it's no longer needed but that's going to require a lot of oversight from the community to confirm.

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