{"id":1165,"date":"2019-11-02T10:32:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T09:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2019-11-02T10:32:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T09:32:47","slug":"how-toronto-reined-in-big-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/2019\/11\/02\/how-toronto-reined-in-big-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"How Toronto Reined In Big Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Sidewalk Labs, a sister company of Google, had proposed rebuilding a  chunk of land east of downtown in exchange for using Toronto as a beta  test. In pushing back against that plan, Toronto reached a compromise  that lets Sidewalk go ahead, but firmly under public control \u2014 setting a  precedent for how governments around the world can harness the  potential for \u201csmart cities\u201d without letting Big Tech dictate the terms. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/11\/01\/opinion\/how-toronto-reined-in-big-tech.html?action=click&amp;module=Opinion&amp;pgtype=Homepage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"New York Times (opens in a new tab)\">New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sidewalk Labs, a sister company of Google, had proposed rebuilding a chunk of land east of downtown in exchange for using Toronto as a beta test. In pushing back against that plan, Toronto reached a compromise that lets Sidewalk go ahead, but firmly under public control \u2014 setting a precedent for how governments around the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}