Sidewalk Labs' first public undertaking was the installation of several hundred free internet-enabled kiosks in New York City, ostensibly to combat the problem of "digital inequality." As we saw with Google Street View, the company can siphon a lot of valuable information about people from a Wi-Fi network, even if they don't use the kiosks. Doctoroff has characterized the Sidewalk Labs' kiosks as "fountains of data" that will be equipped with environmental sensors and also collect "other data, all of which can create very hyperlocal information about conditions in the city."

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