The New York Times reports on the proliferation of smart-city projects and whether privacy protection will play a role. More than a dozen U.S. cities have recently started competing for federal grant dollars and the attention of tech companies. Kansas City, for example, "has become an unexpected des...

The typical citizen does not know what a smart city is, would not know how to recognize if the technology was present, and would likely not have enough knowledge about the way the technology is used to formulate an informed opinion about whether the benefits to them outweigh the costs. To many urba...

It is becoming clear that governments are bound to see a backlash when they do not engage the public in deals with tech vendors that affect public policy. “I remain of the opinion that we shouldn’t make public policy with a vendor, so this was a bad deal at the beginning and is still a bad deal tod...