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?
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?
This is roughly what I was going to write. For each particular thing there’s probably some way to engineer the necessary monitoring for it to work without compromising privacy. Like for the crosswalk using a very low resolution camera or using infrared sensors or something so it can only see blobs.
Creating a way for the public to verify the hardware/software could also probably be engineered for a lot of things but would obviously require people to care enough to audit.