A better way of gauging public opinion or the intrusion of Big Brother?

Members of the Buda City Council are grappling with that question in the wake of a presentation last week on Zencity, an Artificial Intelligence-driven platform that cities can use to gather and analyze data across social media, web and news platforms.

No action was taken, and the city’s Public Information Officer David Marino said he wasn’t too surprised.

“My job is to bring things forward to council that are...