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Privacy and Social Values in Smart Cities

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Designing, Developing, and Facilitating Smart Cities

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Privacy, a fundamental human right, is a key nonfunctional requirement to every electronic service and applications designed for smart societies. Informational privacy, the right of individuals to control information related to them, in smart societies is at the core of this chapter. A key aspect in the layout of smart societies and smart cities is the understanding and prediction of human behavior, which is nowadays fundamentally based on collecting and processing personal data. Hence, smart societies need to accommodate individuals’ rights and the data collection needs. We provide an overview of the existing models and techniques for protecting individuals’ privacy, such as privacy policies, transparency tools and anonymous communication systems, and discuss the needs and limitations of Privacy by Design (PbD) in the layout of smart societies and Internet of Things.

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Notes

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    http://smart-society-project.eu.

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    https://www.ingenie.com/how-it-works.

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    The “Uninvited Guests” is short film produced by Superflux and commissioned by Thing Tank. https://vimeo.com/128873380.

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    Z. Tufekci and B. King. “We Can’t Trust Uber”. In: The Opinion Pages, NY Times, Dec. 7, 2014.

    www.nytimes.com/2014/12/08/opinion/we-cant-trust-uber.html.

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    M. Isaac. “Uber Executives Comments Leave Company Scrambling”. In: Bits, a NY Times Blog, Nov. 18, 2014. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/18/emil-michael-of-uber-proposes-digging-into-journalists-private-lives/.

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    The EU GDPR was passed by the European Parliament in Dec. 2015, entered into force on 24 May 2016 and shall apply in all EU member sates from 25 May 2018. The GDPR was chosen as our reference for many reasons: (a) it applies to data controllers or processors located in the EU, and to any organization processing personal data of EU residents, (b) it reflects the basic privacy principles of the OECD privacy guidelines and (c) of the US Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Fair Information Practice Principles (even going beyond them).

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    B. Ray. “Securing the Internet of Things–or how light bulbs can spy on you”. Apr. 22, 2013. The Register. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/22/iot_security/.

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    D. Pauli. “Connected kettles boil over, spill Wi-Fi passwords over London”. Oct. 19, 2015. The Register. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/19/bods_brew_ikettle_20_hack_plot_vulnerable_london_pots/.

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    I. Thomson. “Goodbye, Hello Barbie: Wireless toy dogged by POODLE SSL hole”. Dec. 4, 2015. The Register. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/04/wireless_barbie_slipshod_security/.

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    The RFID capabilities and the scope of its applications are narrow enough to produce a PIA with a (non-exhaustive) set of 15 potential threats and five groups of countermeasures.

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    The definition of the terms anonymity, unlinkability, pseudonymity, unobservability in this chapter follows the Pfitzmann and Hansen terminology [30].

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This research was funded by SMARTSOCIETY, a research project of the Seventh Framework Programme for Research of the European Community under grant agreements no. 600854.

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    Leonardo A. Martucci & Simone Fischer-Hübner

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Martucci, L.A., Fischer-Hübner, S., Hartswood, M., Jirotka, M. (2017). Privacy and Social Values in Smart Cities. In: Angelakis, V., Tragos, E., Pöhls, H., Kapovits, A., Bassi, A. (eds) Designing, Developing, and Facilitating Smart Cities. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44924-1_6

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