Impact of Privacy Issues on Smart City Services in a Model Smart City

Abstract

With the recent technological development, there is prevalent trend for smart infrastructure deployment with intention to provide smart services for inhabitants. City governments of current era are under huge pressure to facilitate their residents by offering state of the art services equipped with modern technology gadgets. To achieve this goal they have been forced for massive investment in IT infrastructure deployment, eventually they are collecting huge amount of data from users with intention of providing them better or improved services. These services are very exciting but on the other side they also pose a big threat to the privacy of individuals. This paper designed and simulated a smart city model. This model is connected with some mandatory communication devices which also produce data for different sensors, Based on simulation results and possible threats for alteration of this data, it suggests solution for privacy issues which are to be considered at top priority to ensure secrecy and privacy of smart city residents.

Security, Privacy and Risks Within Smart Cities: Literature Review and Development of a Smart City Interaction Framework

“…Factors relating to trust are critical to the success of smart cities and are reliant on the effective management and communication of data. The significant levels of data communicated via IoT based infrastructure, pose significant security and privacy concerns in the minds of citizens (Abosaq 2019 ; Elmaghraby and Losavio 2014 ), especially for those demographics that exhibit high levels of reticence to interact with technology (Joss 2018 ). Designers of smart cities are advised to focus on these factors as they balance the needs of citizen concerns relating to privacy and security with greater access to personal data.…”

“…Researchers have sought to identify technological solutions to deal with privacy and wider information security challenges. The study by Abosaq ( 2019 ) analysed the privacy issues faced by smart cities including authentication, access control, confidentiality, trust, data security, policy implementation and secure middleware. The author designed and simulated a smart city model connected with mandatory communication devices that produced data for a number of sensors.…”

“…The author designed and simulated a smart city model connected with mandatory communication devices that produced data for a number of sensors. The study proposed that data privacy can be achieved by a Fast ID Online (FIDO) authentication process (Fido Alliance 2019 ) for the device to network or device to cloud authentication and that data privacy should be considered an integral element of the smart city infrastructure (Abosaq 2019 ). The privacy aspects inherent within smart city network traffic infrastructure were analysed in De Fuentes et al ( 2017 ), where the study posited the benefits of an Attribute-Based Credentials (ABCs) solution to help address the issue of disclosure of unnecessary data.…”

“…A number of articles focused on smart city infrastructure and ways to overcome security and privacy issues within smart cities (Abosaq 2019;Ainane et al 2018;Alandjani 2018;Antoine Picon 2019;Awad et al 2019;Baryshev et al 2016;Bernardes et al 2018;Chatterjee et al 2017;de Amorim et al 2019). The IoT plays a pivotal role within the infrastructure of smart cities as it provides the network architecture responsible for gathering and processing data from distributed sensors and smart devices.…”

“…New applications and services have emerged that use this data as they facilitate the communication between citizens and different levels of government. The power of GPS based tracking data, integrated with detailed personal information on shopping habits, location, personal interests, communicated via IoT based infrastructure, poses significant security and privacy concerns (Abosaq 2019;Elmaghraby and Losavio 2014). The new modes of urban governance that exist within the smart city infrastructure, expose a number of new threats to user and network data privacy and confidentiality, in the context of communication and establishing trust between devices (Cho 2012).…”