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‘Smart City’ projects are really police cam-share programs in disguise

Posted on April 25, 2018June 25, 2025 by Dissent

Joe Cadillic writes:

A recent article in the Erie-Times, revealed that ‘Secure Smart City’ (SSC) projects are really police cam-share programs in disguise.

The article boasts that the city of Erie will soon get fast, public Wi-Fi as well as a video surveillance system that can alert law enforcement of potential threats.

It starts to get interesting when Mayor Joe Schember admits that the SSC surveillance system “could relay real-time information to city officials.”

Spying on citizens in real-time is only the beginning of this privacy nightmare.

Read more on MassPrivateI.

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