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Over the past 10 years, urban planners, technology companies, and governments have promoted smart cities with a somewhat utopian vision of urban life made knowable and manageable through data collection and analysis. Emerging smart cities have become both crucibles and showrooms for the practical application of the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and the integration of big data into everyday life. Are smart cities optimized, sustainable, digitally networked solutions to urban problems? Or are they neoliberal, corporate-controlled, undemocratic non-places?

Are you being robbed in your own home and don't even know it? Are you being conned out of your own passwords and account numbers without your knowledge? Are your children safe from predicators when you allow them to be on the computer unsupervised? Do you know how to protect yourself? So what the heck are digital footprints and cookies? Or spam, malware, and phishing? This is a basic guide for the average computer user on how to protect themselves online.