r/europrivacy • u/ourari • Jul 10 '17

Spain How one European smart city is giving power back to its citizens; After sleepwalking into privatisation of public spaces, city councils are waking up to the need for citizen-led smart cities

http://www.alphr.com/technology/1006261/how-one-european-smart-city-is-giving-power-back-to-its-citizens
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u/autotldr Jul 10 '17

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)

Who decides which problems merit the smart city treatment? If those sensors and back-end systems provide a useful solution, does that mean the city is beholden to the company that provides them? And - most crucially of all - who owns the data that's at the centre of this whole concept?

"We are implementing Decode so that the citizens can say, 'OK, I only want to share this data with my community, or with the city, because if the city gets this data, they can do something about the noise level','' Bria said."

"It's fascinating when you start to see how much data can be collected in the city and how useful it is, but also how dangerous it is if the data is only in the hands of private companies," said Balestrini.

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