Are Smart Cities a Threat to Data Privacy?
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For smart cities to function, they must collect data — but can they achieve true data privacy? Smart cities leverage data through the use of IoT, AI, computer vision, smartphones, and more. This opens them up to data privacy risks like surveillance abuse, data breaches, bias and discrimination, and a lack of government transparency. The privacy-by-design (PBD) framework may provide a solution, but it remains to be seen whether true data privacy can be achieved in a smart city.