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RSS FeedsDigital panel raises big concerns with Sidewalk Labs´ smart city proposal
(The Star Books)

 
 

11 september 2019 00:42:42

 
Digital panel raises big concerns with Sidewalk Labs´ smart city proposal
(The Star Books)
 


A Waterfront Toronto panel has big concerns with core but “frustratingly abstract” aspects of a controversial proposal for a high-tech neighbourhood on Toronto’s waterfront.“Preliminary commentary” released Tuesday by the tri-government agency’s digital strategy advisory group — 15 Canadian and international experts — raises serious questions about the globally watched proposal from Sidewalk Labs, a Manhattan-based Google sister company.The report could be another setback to efforts by Waterfront Toronto and Sidewalk Labs to formalize a final partnership to transform a 12-acre former industrial site at Queens Quay and Parliament St. — and potentially 190 acres of city-owned Port Lands — into a test bed for innovations to solve urban challenges on housing, transit and more.Questions of ownership and protection of Torontonians’ data expected to be generated and stored by sensors throughout the area emerged as an early major concern after Sidewalk Labs in October 2017 won an international competition to potentially partner with the agency on the Quayside site.Sidewalk Labs should be cut out of responsibility for crafting mechanisms to control data governance, with Waterfront Toronto and its government partners taking full control, the panel says. The firm should “focus on elaborating on how it will make its own proposals for data collection, processing and use more transparent, accountable and amenable to a robust privacy protection regime.”In the commentary, Sidewalk Labs’ digital plan is called “frustratingly abstract.” Panellists felt some proposed innovations were irrelevant or unnecessary, and want to know what is a “minimum viable plan” — parts necessary for the project versus merely advantageous to Sidewalk Labs.Sidewalk Labs’ proposal would benefit from a “discussion of the dependencies between digital solutions, scale, and any requi ...


 
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