GE insists its San Diego project—part of a global ‘smart city’ push, with connected sensors, cameras and microphones—will protect privacy.
Thousands of new “smart” streetlights to be rolled out across the city of San Diego will be connected to a city-wide network, allowing officials to adjust their brightness and detect outages from afar. But in addition to giving off light, they will also be pulling in information about what’s going on around them.