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?

  • cecilkorik@piefed.ca
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    4 hours ago

    You will never get to zero surveillance, surveillance capitalists will find ways, but if you make regulations that require all data to be properly anonymized and limited, demand open source and open hardware for everything, and develop programs to make things auditable and inspectable, you can keep the surveillance corruption to a probably quite small minimum. Over time though, even this system will become corrupted and the surveillance will quietly grow, unless society makes it a priority and a non-negotiable. And it’s not clear society ever will make it a priority or non-negotiable. People will trade away their privacy so easily. So in the long term, maybe not.