NYCLU: City’s Public Wi-Fi Raises Privacy Concerns

Worth noting that while the article tries to paint CityBridge as the company behind this, LinkNYC is a project by Intersection, which is funded by Alphabet.

Very worth noting, indeed.

I'll just leave this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8621791

If you don't like it, don't use it.

Any "privacy concerns" regarding an opt-in service are dubious at best.

Also, where's the uproar about literally every single ISP, doing the same things on a much wider scale?

Correction: If you don't like it, then don't use it for as long as your attempts to raise awareness and propose improvements continue to fail. But don't give up.

If you don't like it, don't use it.

That's the thing -- lots of lower-income people still don't have (reliable, high-bandwidth) wifi in their homes and schools. So if the city provides something for free -- and they want to move up in the world -- they pretty much have to use it.