Big data and corporate control in public and private realms provide a new perspective on how society should live within cities; what private information is held about them and by who. This becomes increasingly important in contemporary society as pointed out by David Lyon (2010) who highlighted digital identification frameworks and a future where cyber citizens are sorted and exchanged as if they were another piece of data in a vast network, rather than a purposeful physical being. This Manifesto outlines key case studies in Kings Cross, London and Hong Kong, China analysing both state control of data compared to corporate control through the lens of theorists Paul Virilio , Manuel Castells and others. This concludes with an understanding of an idealistic social construction, which could see corporations thriving whilst still maintaining civil rights and state planning of the expanding networks within the city.
