A government plan to introduce about 400 multifunctional lamp posts across Hong Kong should go ahead but with their cameras removed and other safeguards created to allay public concerns about privacy and data collection, an expert committee said on Monday.The lamp posts are part of the government’s “smart city” initiative and come equipped with a range of technologies, including Wi-fi access, Bluetooth detectors, a radio frequency identification tag, meteorological and air quality sensors, as…
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