Abstract
Abstract. The project of smart cities has emerged as a response to the challenges of twenty-first- century urbanization. Solutions to the fundamental conundrum of cities revolving around efficiency, convenience and security keep being sought by leveraging technology. Notwithstanding all the conveniences furnished by a smart city to all the citizens, privacy of a citizen is intertwined with the benefits of a smart city. The development processes which overlook privacy and security issues have left many of the smart city applications vulnerable to non-conventional security threats and susceptible to numerous privacy and personal data spillage risks. Among the challenges the smart city initiatives encounter, the emergence of the smartphone-big data-the cloud coalescence is perhaps the greatest, from the viewpoint of privacy and personal data protection. As our cities are getting digitalized, information comprising citizens' behavior, choices, and mobility, as well as their personal assets are shared over smartphone-big data-the cloud coalescences, thereby expanding cyber-threat surface and creating different security concerns. This coalescence refers to the practices of creating and analyzing vast sets of data, which comprise personal information. In this paper, the protection of privacy and personal data issues in the big data environment of smart cities are viewed through bifocal lenses, focusing on social and technical aspects. The protection of personal data and privacy in smart city enterprises is treated as a socio-technological operation where various actors and factors undertake different tasks. The article concludes by calling for novel developments, conceptual and practical changes both in technological and social realms.
Highlights
Smart cities' appeal is conspicuous and undeniable; services and conveniences they offer are neither to be rejected nor ignored (Caragliu, 2011)
In determining the relevant actor groups, we can act on the following question: For whom does the protection of personal data have a resembling implication in smart cities? According to the answer to this question, we can divide the actors into three groups: a) Smart city administrators; b) Technology Vendors; c) Citizens
We argued that the protection of personal data and privacy in smart city enterprises is a socio-technological process where diverse actors and different factors play a variety of roles
Summary
Smart cities' appeal is conspicuous and undeniable; services and conveniences they offer are neither to be rejected nor ignored (Caragliu, 2011). Quite a number of damaging stories circulate which revolve about the privacy and private data They create skepticism and anxiety concerning the cities and citizens and backlash against smart city projects. If a substantial number of users in smart cities deny, for instance, to be involved with services delivered through smart devices or cloud computing, a digitally dispossessed or marginalized underclass who are unable to access services of the smart cities may be created This is a foreboding apprehension which needs to be treated by paying attention to privacy and private data protection. Weaknesses in smartphones-big datathe cloud ensemble manifests itself likely to risk personal privacy of residents and guests of the smart city Both technology and regulation together with the actors of the smart city have so far failed to combat with this threat effectively
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