Will Data Privacy Issues Affect New Orleans' Broadband Push?

Skip Descant writes about the hurdles the City of New Orleans is facing as it pursues a project to increase broadband access in the city, including by providing Wi-Fi service to residents who cannot afford it or live where there is currently no connection. Urbanism Next Director Nico Larco stresses the important of this project: 

“Expanding broadband access is a modern-day version of what the government did decades ago to expand access to electricity to everyone, particularly programs such as rural electrification,” said Nico Larco, a University of Oregon architecture professor and expert in areas like urban technology. “Without it, you are leaving large swaths of the population behind.”