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An outreach campaign was launched to clarify that the microphones, for example, were designed to measure street noise, not record conversations. The cameras were for counting pedestrian traffic and would not be equipped with facial recognition technology; images would be processed within each unit and then deleted, so that only raw, aggregate data would be transmitted to project servers.
Perhaps most importantly, data was to be held by the Argonne National Laboratory, not a corporation, with an independent panel of privacy experts overseeing how it was managed.
Smart Cities or Surveillance Cities?
planning.org
The sectionmen and their families communicate little with one another, and the railroad—their employer—is their only source of contact with the wider world. Little wonder that at each milepost, Johnson finds families “driven to eccentricity by isolation.”
Declining Cities, Declining Unions: Urban Sprawl and U.S. Inequality - Dissent Magazine
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The sign (positive or negative) on the coefficient for an independent variable tells us the direction of its association with the dependent variable (the outcome we are trying to explain). In the simple case above, the coefficient on height is positive. Taller people tend to weigh more.
Naked Statistics Stripping the Dread From the Data
Wheelan, Charles
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