The city’s leaders are acquiring the cellphone data of unwitting tourists and using hundreds of surveillance cameras to monitor visitors and prevent crowding. Patricia and Stéphane Pontoni, two French tourists who were visiting for the day, in Venice, Italy, Sept 13, 2021. “Venice,” Iglesias sighed, “is the perfect place to lose yourself.”But Venice, it turns out, did not lose sight of them. And in a control room a few miles away, city officials examined phone data gathered from them and just about everyone in Venice that day. City leaders dismiss critics who fret about the invasion of privacy, saying that all the phone data is gathered anonymously.

Source: bd News24 October 05, 2021 09:33 UTC