Free Wi-Fi Kiosks Were to Aid New Yorkers. An Unsavory Side Has Spurred a >Retreat.
Err, no. They're a method of installing surveillance equipment all over the city so as to track everyone's movements, both by monitoring cell/smart phones in their pockets and.. by plenty, make that PLENTY, of attached video cameras.
(Most people who watch this stuff, i.e. a hefty chunk of c.d.t. readers, figured out the first part. The video cameras and other sensors is something that wasn't so obvious)
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