{"id":178569,"date":"2018-10-24T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/10\/24\/google-being-evil-2\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T19:08:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T00:08:00","slug":"google-being-evil-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/10\/24\/google-being-evil-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Being Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is spending a lot of time on its &#8220;Smart City&#8221; project in Toronot, but it appears rather likely that their promises of respecting resident privacy is a sham, since <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/4579265\/ann-cavoukian-resigns-sidewalk-labs\/\">privacy expert Ann Cavoukian has abruptly resigned from the project<\/a>, and issued a scathing letter stating that her concerns are being ignored:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/privacy-rights\/\">Ontario\u2019s former privacy commissioner<\/a> has resigned from her consulting role at a company that is preparing to build a high-tech community at Toronto\u2019s waterfront, citing concerns that a privacy framework she developed is being overlooked.<\/p>\n<p>Ann Cavoukian resigned from her role from Google sister company Sidewalk Labs on Friday to \u201cmake a strong statement\u201d she told Global News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt I had no choice because I had been told by Sidewalk Labs that all of the data collected will be de-identified at source,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>But last Thursday, at a meeting, she said she found out that wasn\u2019t the case with the company, which invested $40 million to develop technology for a downtown Toronto smart city project.<\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\"> <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cSidewalk said while they would commit to doing it, the other parties involved in these new entities they\u2019ve created\u2026they couldn\u2019t make them do it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Former Blackberry co-CEO Jim Balsillie called the project \u201ca colonizing experiment in surveillance capitalism.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour personal information, your privacy is critical. It is not just a fundamental human right. It forms the foundation of our freedom,\u201d Cavoukian said. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Google is evil, and it, and Facebook, and the rest of the Silicon snake oil sales men who try to make their money off of your personal data, need to be regulated aggressively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is spending a lot of time on its &#8220;Smart City&#8221; project in Toronot, but it appears rather likely that their promises of respecting resident privacy is a sham, since privacy expert Ann Cavoukian has abruptly resigned from the project, and issued a scathing letter stating that her concerns are being ignored: Ontario\u2019s former privacy &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[365,475,364,387,366],"class_list":["post-178569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-canada","tag-evil","tag-hypocrisy","tag-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}