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Alphabet’s urban-innovation division, which once attempted to build a data-driven neighborhood in Toronto, will be folded into Google.

Sidewalk Labs backed out of its “smart neighborhood” project in Toronto, but Ann Cavoukian said its flagrant misreading of the public’s privacy concerns may continue to haunt the company.

Google’s urban-development sibling abandoned plans to build a “smart” neighborhood in the Canadian city, citing “unprecedented economic uncertainty.”

The new coronavirus pandemic has delayed until June 25 a decision on whether Sidewalk Labs will be permitted to build its “smart neighborhood,” Quayside, on the city’s eastern lakeshore.

AI-powered cameras to detect what people are recycling and detailed reports sent back to tenants are hoped to encourage more responsible waste management.

Google sibling Sidewalk Labs has provided more detail on data storage and collection and technology integration for its Quayside neighborhood project in Toronto.

The city and its Alphabet-owned partner are moving forward on the contentious project after settling resolutions on several longstanding disagreements.

Whether Toronto’s controversial Quayside project will continue will be settled in a meeting between city stakeholders and Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs on Thursday.

The urban technology subsidiary of Google parent Alphabet released a four-volume, 1,500-page master plan detailing its intentions for a brand-new neighborhood.

A unanimous vote by the city’s executive committee affirmed a recommended review of Sidewalk Labs’ master plan, which is slated for release later this month.