Google’s Sidewalk Labs Plans to Package and Sell Location Data on Millions of Cellphones
▻https://theintercept.com/2019/01/28/google-alphabet-sidewalk-labs-replica-cellphone-data
Most of the data collected by urban planners is messy, complex, and difficult to represent. It looks nothing like the smooth graphs and clean charts of city life in urban simulator games like “SimCity.” A new initiative from Sidewalk Labs, the city-building subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet, has set out to change that. The program, known as Replica, offers planning agencies the ability to model an entire city’s patterns of movement. Like “SimCity,” Replica’s “user-friendly” tool (...)
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