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Cities across the country are installing “free” spying Smart City Kiosks

Posted on August 29, 2018June 25, 2025 by Dissent

Joe Cadillic writes:

Two years ago, I wrote an article warning NYC residents that City Bridge was installing spying Smart City Kiosks (SCK) throughout the city.

The SCK’s came equipped with cameras, microphones and sensors that created the largest urban spying system in the country.

SCK’s collect lot’s of personal information, like a person’s MAC address, IP address, browser type and version and their destination IP address to name a few.

Who is behind SCK’s?

Two years ago it was revealed that Google acquired Control Group, which is CityBridge’s parent corporation.

Read more on MassPrivateI.

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