Canada's Digital Charter does not comfort Alphabet's smart-city critics

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Canada's Digital Charter does not comfort Alphabet's smart-city critics

Fears Sidewalk Labs unit could be misused for mass surveillance.

Canada's Digital Charter lacks sufficient legal enforcement power to effectively protect privacy and regulate use of personal data, according to critics worried that a smart city project in Toronto by Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs unit could be misused for mass surveillance. The Digital Charter was ...

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