With the surveillance system in smart cities, things turned out to be much worse than anyone could have imagined. The Globe And Mail analyzed a document called the "Yellow Book" that came to them, which describes the concept of the so-called "smart cities", created by a subsidiary of Google - Sidewalk Labs.
The book proposes the creation of a community that can house 100,000 people on an area of up to 1,000 acres, and names Detroit, Denver and Alameda, California, as well as the shores of Lake Athabasca in northern Saskatchewan as potential sites for such mini-cities. Also in 2017, Sidewalk Labs won a tender to implement its project in Toronto. This project has already received a flurry of criticism from various privacy experts, and some have even gone so far as to call it "surveillance capitalism."
Sidewalk will require tax and financial powers for their city, including even the ability to levy taxes. The company will also create and oversee its own public services, including charter schools, special transportation systems and private road infrastructure.
The Globe and Mail also reports that, according to the Yellow Book, Sidewalk Labs also wants to control the city's police force along with the justice system.
Sidewalk intends to request local police powers similar to those given to universities. Sidewalk Labs police will arrest people and judge them by judges, while Sidewalk Labs police will be able to use "unique data identifiers" to track each resident.
Sidewalk will collect real-time position data of all objects, including people. The company will also collect a history of data on all events that have occurred. In addition, unique data identifiers will be generated for each person or object registered in the mini-city, helping the devices communicate with each other.
Google's SensorVault already provides police with a wealth of personal information from a person's cell phone.
The data that Google passes on to law enforcement is so accurate that a police officer said it "shows the whole picture of life."
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The Globe and Mail also writes that Smart Cities Sidewalk Labs will implement a tiered social credit system that rewards certain people and punishes those who want to remain anonymous. Anonymous users will not be able to access all services in the area, automated taxi services will not be available to them, and some shops will not accept cash.
Harvard professor Shoshana Zuboff believes Sidewalk Lab will use digital infrastructure to change and guide social and political behavior, similar to China's.
Putting together law enforcement and real-time location data, CCTV cameras, social media monitoring, Stingray devices, SensorVault, and a multi-tiered social credit system, it becomes clear, even without expert opinion, how dangerous this “smart surveillance” is. force people to change their social and political behavior, otherwise they will be denied public services, as is done in China.