Microsoft has partnered with IBM to announce a global initiative intended to develop "smart cities" around the world. Microsoft envisions the prospect of “big data tools and cloud-powered enterprise apps” empowering workers with “sources ranging from vast databases to real-time data, culled from environmental sensors on street corners to chips embedded in the pavement and throughout your home and in your smartphone,” technologies that “should allow workers and government agencies along with law enforcement to more quickly derive insights, collaborate with one another and come to decisions.” At the heart of Microsoft's version of OZ will be a massive and unprecedented surveillance and tracking monstrosity much more Orwellian than the system Microsoft built for New York City. Microsoft's idea of the perfect city is one where everyone knows exactly what everyone else is doing in real time. Privacy and human dignity will be traded for economics and security. Every time you leave your driveway an app on your smartphone will track in the name of efficiency and security. For example if you speed or take the wrong route you'll be warned you're using too much fuel etc. The problem is that the Authorities will also be informed in real time of any deviations from what the Authorities and Microsoft deem allowable. At home all your appliances will monitor you. Starting with your Smartmeter and refrigerator down to how many times you flush your toilet. Microsoft has announced eight customers so far: Zhengzhou and Hainan Province, both in China; Auckland, New Zealand; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Hamburg, Germany; Manchester, England; Moscow, Russia; and Philadelphia, the only U.S. city to sign up so far. READ ARTICLE
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