This....
Perhaps Smart Cities aren’t happening because of the slow motion car crash of IoT, with its lousy security.
AND
Pervasive Data collection
Means that they need to know everything about you, your life and friends and relatives and ... and ...
all in order to 'Improve the service we deliver to you'.
I don't F**king care about smart cities if I have to be actively tracked, have ads slung at them, everything I do fed to some AI system somewhere and also to the NSA, GCHQ etc etc in order for me to go about my peacable business.
I already turn off 3G/4G data and WiFi on my devices when in a town or city unless I really need to use them. I do not want to be part of the IoT or smart cities if it means surrendering what little privacy I have left in this world.
The rest of my thoughts on the matter are mostly unrepeatable.