What’s the Difference Between ‘Smart City’ and Surveillance? Speakers at the recent Micromobility World conference debated the future of smart city tech and whether it’s actually been improving urban mobility, or simply facilitating a growth of the surveillance state. Skip Descant, Government Technology | February 8, 2021 | Analysis Nearly a decade into the “smart city” movement, observers from planning, transportation and privacy arenas are turning a critical eye to technology in search of a problem to solve. Too often...