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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: rangerrebew on April 24, 2018, 05:46:03 pm

Title: With smart cities, your every step will be recorded
Post by: rangerrebew on April 24, 2018, 05:46:03 pm
With smart cities, your every step will be recorded
April 17, 2018 by Sara Degli-Esposti And Siraj Ahmed Shaikh, The Conversation
 

Modern cities are brimming with objects that receive, collect and transmit data. This includes mobile phones but also objects actually embedded into our cities, such as traffic lights and air pollution stations. Even something as simple as a garbage bin can now be connected to the internet, meaning that it forms part of what is called the internet of things (IoT). A smart city collects the data from these digital objects, and uses it to create new products and services that make cities more liveable.

Although they have huge potential to make life better, the possibility of increasingly smarter cities also raises serious privacy concerns. Through sensors embedded into our cities, and the smartphones in our pockets, smart cities will have the power to constantly identify where people are, who they are meeting and even perhaps what they are doing.


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-04-smart-cities.html#jCp
Title: Re: With smart cities, your every step will be recorded
Post by: rangerrebew on April 24, 2018, 05:47:37 pm
Smart Cities?  SMART CITIES? i would call them slave cities.  If they know your every step, where is freedom? :3:
Title: Re: With smart cities, your every step will be recorded
Post by: Fishrrman on April 25, 2018, 12:39:04 am
Be a "smart person":
STAY OUT of such places...
Title: Re: With smart cities, your every step will be recorded
Post by: RoosGirl on April 25, 2018, 02:02:21 am
I suspect with smart phones this is already capable of being done.
Title: Re: With smart cities, your every step will be recorded
Post by: WingNot on April 25, 2018, 02:04:07 am
Quote from: RoosGirl on April 25, 2018, 02:02:21 am
I suspect with smart phones this is already capable of being done.

That is why I always carry a burner phone.
Title: Re: With smart cities, your every step will be recorded
Post by: RoosGirl on April 25, 2018, 02:05:21 am
Quote from: Wingnut on April 25, 2018, 02:04:07 am
That is why I always carry a burner phone.

People like us should.
Title: Re: With smart cities, your every step will be recorded
Post by: WingNot on April 25, 2018, 02:09:22 am
Quote from: RoosGirl on April 25, 2018, 02:05:21 am
People like us should.
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