[LINK] Smart Cities

[Roger Clarke]

At 8:31 +1100 5/3/12, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>At 04:17 AM 5/03/2012, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
>>This building is the Operations Center of the city of Rio, and its system
>>was designed by IBM at the request of Rio's mayor, Eduardo Paes, after
>>deadly landslides two years ago.
>
>que?
>How in the world do these two ideas go together: land slide - 24 hr.
>surveillance; land slide - 24 hr. surveillance. They're going to
>watch it happen? How about just putting cameras pointing at the hills
>that slide and watch?
>
>I'm sure all those poor people in the shanties really get benefit out
>of this system.

It's a crime-ridden city.  It's a reasonable guess that it's mostly 
about monitoring crime.

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