Mar 31, 2023
As the U.S. government, tech companies, the media and urban developers double down on the idea that future cities must be "smart," critics warn the technology-driven urban projects will turn cities into "data farms." Miss a day, miss a lot. Subscribe to The Defender's Top News of the Day. It's free. U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg last week announced $94 million in grant awards to fund 59 smart city technology projects across the country. Despite widespread and mounting pushback against biometric surveillance and control systems associated with smart city technologies and the failure of the U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) previous attempt to grant-fund smart city transformation in Columbus, Ohio, Buttigieg told The Verge he thinks "smart city technologies matter more than ever." Cities just need to take a different approach - experimenting with and testing out different technologies first, rather than implementing
