• Wired, Friday, May 8, 2020 9:43 AM

Citing “unprecedented economic uncertainly,” Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs is scrapping its “smart city” project in Toronto, Wired reports. Sidewalk Labs was planning to spend $50 million to redevelop a portion of Toronto’s waterfront. “But Sidewalk Labs’ vision was in trouble long before the pandemic,” according to Wires. “Since its inception, the project had been criticized by progressive activists concerned about how the Alphabet company would collect and protect data, and who would own that data.”

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