Dan Doctoroff, the chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc.-backed Sidewalk Labs, says the recently revealed plans should quell the privacy and data concerns of all but the most "extreme" critics of the Quayside project.

Waterfront Toronto says the upcoming master plan will address data concerns. The agency wants to make Toronto a global hub of a rising new industry, she said.

A sister company to Google, Sidewalk Labs, will enter into a joint venture with the three levels of government and Waterfront Toronto to build a high tech neighbourhood called "Quayside"