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How Leaks Helped Knock Down #Google’s Smart City?

Join an open discussion with Josh O'Kane

"How leaks helped journalists tell the real story of the fall of Sidewalk Labs

When #Toronto welcomed Sidewalk Labs [..] that combined culture of message control made it very difficult to figure out what their plans were. Much like what Julian Assange writes in When Google Met WikiLeaks..."

#FuckOffGoogle #FuckOffAlphabet #FuckOffSideWalkLabs #SmartCity #NoisyLeaks

Open Letter to Waterfront Toronto by 100+ Toronto-area residents re: Sidewalk Toronto

https://medium.com/@waterfronttoopenletter/open-letter-to-waterfront-toronto-by-100-toronto-area-residents-re-sidewalk-toronto-9e447cb00b78

"Torontonians are tired of a process that has largely been conducted behind closed doors and which still leaves key questions about Sidewalk Labs’ [Google's "smart city" sister company] plan unanswered, including how much publicly-owned land is involved in the deal."

#FuckOffGoogle #FuckOffAlphabet #FuckOffSideWalk #BlockSideWalk #Toronto #SmartCity #SpyCity

Open Letter to Waterfront Toronto by 100+ Toronto-area residents re: Sidewalk Toronto

Image credit: Michèle Champagne

The Deceptive Platform Utopianism of Google’s Sidewalk Labs

https://failedarchitecture.com/the-deceptive-platform-utopianism-of-googles-sidewalk-labs/

"The company’s “innovative” plan for Toronto’s waterfront puts radical spatial practice, participatory ideals, and romanticism to work for a regressive marketization scheme."

more: https://wiki.fuckoffgoogle.de/index.php?title=Smart_City_by_Google_(Toronto,_Sidewalk_Labs)

#BlockSideWalk #FuckOffGoogle #FuckOffAlphabet #FuckOffSidewalkLabs

The Deceptive Platform Utopianism of Google’s Sidewalk Labs - Failed Architecture

The company’s “innovative” plan for Toronto’s waterfront puts radical spatial practice, participatory ideals, and romanticism to work for a re...

Failed Architecture

"Google’s new reCAPTCHA has a dark side"

https://www.fastcompany.com/90369697/googles-new-recaptcha-has-a-dark-side

Oh, really? It wasn't all philantropy in the first place?! What a f**** suprise!!!

Training the Empire's robots has never been so fun!

#FuckOffGoogle #FuckOffAlphabet

Google’s new reCAPTCHA has a dark side

The latest version of the bot detector reCaptcha is invisible to users and has spread to more than 650,000 websites. It’s great for security—but not so great for your privacy.

"Smart City", n: Local administration corrupted by Google to let them deploy mass-surveillance within the fabric of the city and its public services.

https://www.blocksidewalk.ca/

"Sidewalk Labs, sister company to Google, won a bid in late 2017 to be part of the development of the Port Lands, a part of Toronto's waterfront, roughly the size of downtown Toronto. This project is called Sidewalk Toronto. "

#BlockSidewalk #FuckOffGoogle #FuckOffAlphabet #FuckOffGoogleAndCo #SurveillanceCapitalism

BlockSidewalk

Keep city building in the public's hands.

Google Hired Gig Economy Workers to Improve Artificial Intelligence in Controversial Drone-Targeting Project

https://theintercept.com/2019/02/04/google-ai-project-maven-figure-eight/

Being paid 1$/hour to help #Google help the #USA kill people with drones seems like a honest wage for a honest job!

#FuckOffGoogle #FuckOffMave #FuckOffAlphabet

Google Hired Gig Economy Workers to Improve Artificial Intelligence in Controversial Drone-Targeting Project

As part of Project Maven, Google's artificial intelligence program for military drones, the tech giant hired unwitting “crowd workers” through Figure Eight.

The Intercept

Google’s Sidewalk Labs Plans to Package and Sell Location Data on Millions of Cellphones

https://theintercept.com/2019/01/28/google-alphabet-sidewalk-labs-replica-cellphone-data/

Google's data used for the future of urban social control, where "Smart City" spies on everyone... Who cares about consent?

#FuckOffGoogle #FuckOffAlphabet #SmartCity #SpyCity

Google’s Sidewalk Labs Plans to Package and Sell Location Data on Millions of Cellphones

Google's sibling company Sidewalk Labs offers planning agencies the ability to model an entire city's patterns of movement.

UrbanArtGallery - FuckOffGoogle

Habitants en colère : #Google renonce à ouvrir un campus à #Berlin

Pas question que Berlin devienne San Francisco. Mobilisés durant des semaines contre le projet, les habitants du quartier alternatif de Kreuzberg ont finalement poussé Google à renoncer à ouvrir un campus dans la capitale allemande.

https://www.lesechos.fr/monde/europe/0600030438239-habitants-en-colere-google-renonce-a-ouvrir-un-campus-a-berlin-2216407.php

(Source AFP)

#FuckOffGoogle #FuckOffAlphabet #GoogleCampus #Berlin

Habitants en colère : Google renonce à ouvrir un campus à Berlin

Pas question que Berlin devienne San Francisco. Mobilisés durant des semaines contre le projet, les habitants du quartier alternatif de...