[Opinion] Fibre Optics, to Read the City While Preserving Privacy

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OPINION. Since their appearance in the 1970s, fibre optic cables have become the backbone of global digital connectivity. A network that could be widely exploited to probe our basements and inform us about urban activity, all without encroaching on privacy, write researchers Carlo Ratti and Biondo BiondiIn 2017, The Economist magazine called data "new oil." The formula has lost nothing of its relevance, all the more so in the era of artificial i…