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

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Fears Sidewalk Labs unit could be misused for mass surveillance.

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