{"id":125623,"date":"2014-06-21T14:13:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T14:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=125623"},"modified":"2014-06-21T14:13:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T14:13:26","slug":"chicago-implement-street-pole-spy-boxes-name-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/chicago-implement-street-pole-spy-boxes-name-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago to Implement Street Pole Spy Boxes in the Name of \u2018Safety\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>by Julie Wilson &#8211; \u2018Civic infrastructure\u2019 disguised as artwork will collect \u2018real-time\u2019 data about city life <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Planners from the Urban Center for Computation and Data, part of a joint initiative between the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, are implementing a project called \u201cArray of things,\u201d in which spy boxes disguised on light poles will collect data.<\/p>\n<p>The project involves installing \u201ccurled metal fixtures,\u201d or data-collecting-sensor boxes, throughout Michigan Avenue, a swanky part of Chicago. Funded by Argonne, the installed systems will count pedestrians \u201cby observing cell phone traffic,\u201d presumably via users\u2019 Wi-Fi-network.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.activistpost.com\/2014\/06\/chicago-to-implement-street-pole-spy.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Julie Wilson &#8211; \u2018Civic infrastructure\u2019 disguised as artwork will collect \u2018real-time\u2019 data about city life Planners from the Urban Center for Computation and Data, part of a joint initiative between the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, are implementing a project called \u201cArray of things,\u201d in which spy boxes disguised on light poles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-125623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}