Whose data is it anyway?: Some privacy advocates have sounded the alarm on Sidewalk Labs’ plans to create a new high-tech innovation district on Toronto’s waterfront, noting the incentives for parent company Alphabet (Google’s owner) to collect personal data from residents. In an interview with GeekWire, Sidewalk Labs CEO Dan Doctoroff emphasizes the ongoing conversation to address these concerns:

Doctoroff … hopes that the Toronto project can become a testbed, not just for smart city innovati…