If you‘re walking around downtown while looking at a smartphone, you will probably see at least one—and more likely two or three—Wi-Fi networks named after intersections: „4th&Seneca,“ „4th&Union,“ „4th&University,“ and so on.

The SPD declined to answer more than a dozen questions from The Stranger, including whether the network is operational, who has access to its data, what it might be used for, and whether the SPD has used it (or intends to use it) to geo-locate people‘s devices via their MAC addresses or other identifiers.