Amid growing privacy concerns over the proposed Google-partnered neighbourhood on Toronto’s waterfront, former chief city planner Jennifer Keesmaat is promising more oversight of city agencies if she is elected mayor. Mayoral candidate Jennifer Keesmaat says there are “deep and growing concerns about data privacy” emerging from the deal between Waterfront Toronto and Sidewalk Labs. ( Andrew Francis Wallace / Toronto Star file photo )The neighbourhood is being built as a partnership between Waterfront Toronto and Sidewalk Labs, a sister company of Google. “The deal with Sidewalk Labs was done behind closed doors, without proper public transparency about what Waterfront Toronto and Google were planning to do to our waterfront,” Keesmaat said. “There are deep and growing concerns about data privacy and we are still missing key details about Google’s plans, to say nothing of the flawed and troubling process that got us here today.

Source: thestar October 16, 2018 17:03 UTC