a public service or surveillance and advertising tool?

  • Written by: Justine Humphry, Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures, University of Sydney
a public service or surveillance and advertising tool?A smart light pole in the UK can also recognise faces and numberplates and detect speeding.Nazlika/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Smart street furniture – powered and digitally networked furniture that collects and generates data – is arriving in Australia. It comes in a variety of forms, including benches, kiosks, light poles and bus...

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