Smart is Not Enough
Abstract Despite increasing concern from the information security community, it is far from clear that even the smartest of U.S. cities are in a position to de…
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From Disruption to Dystopia: Silicon Valley Envisions the City of the Future
"“The whole point of a smart city is that everything that can be collected will be collected,” Al Gidari, the director of privacy at Stanford University’s…
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""The whole point of a smart city is that everything that can be collected will be collected," says Al Gidari, the director of privacy at Stanfor…
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As mass data collection becomes the norm, concerns about surveillance are growing
"This is why conversations regarding smart city data collection sometimes miss the point. Albert Gidari, Director of Privacy at the Stanford Centre for Int…
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Smart cities are making the places we live more vulnerable to attacks
"Brian Nussbaum, assistant professor at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs at the State University of New York at Albany, said in the report that “t…
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Public Access to Smart Data
Last month, the Supreme Court of California may have decided the future of the public’s access to “smart city” data without knowing it. In ACLU v Los Angeles Po…
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Why is the Internet Like a Cell Phone? Carpenter v. U.S
If your cell phone is on, your location is known, tracked and recorded, whether you are in your home or in public. As you move around, your location history is…
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‘Smart Cities’ of the Future Will Require More than Big Data
"Embedding sensors into public infrastructure without centralizing and securing the data doesn’t make a city smart or sensible. If anything, it creates mor…
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These smart cities in Italy put Silicon Valley to shame
"Al Gidari, director of privacy at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, says cities need to work through such issues before starting…
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"Smart Cities" Are Too Smart for Your Privacy
No one wants to live in a “dumb” city. But I question whether anyone ought to want to live in a really smart city either. I’d prefer to just live in a smarter…
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Smart Cities – The Cyber Security and Privacy Implications of Ubiquitous Urban Computing
The rapid growth of embedded computing and the “Internet of Things” (IoT) have been felt in many industries and areas, but few organizations and jurisdictions h…
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Planning for Autonomous Driving
In the United States over the next ten years, governments may spend some $1.5 trillion on their roadways, consumers may purchase vehicles worth nearly $3 trilli…