Smart cities collect a massive amount of data. These tech-savvy cities, and the companies they partner with, are collecting data on traffic flow, waste management, utilities, and, in some cities, faces.
- The immense amount of data a city can collect—upward of 2500 petabytes per day from surveillance cameras alone in 2019—and store in data centers is wide-ranging.
Big picture: In this new digital landscape, industry experts say it’s incumbent on municipal governments to manage the data they collect and to protect it from bad actors.
“The data that’s collected dictates the sensitivity,” Scott Rubin, adjunct lecturer in cybersecurity risk management and the applied intelligence program at Georgetown University’s School of Continuing Studies, told Emerging Tech Brew. “If the smart city just wants to know foot traffic, data impact is pretty low.”
Rubin added that the biggest risk for residents of a smart city stems from the potential leakage of personal identifiable information, or PII, which could include anything from names, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, addresses, and bank accounts.
If a city keeps that type of data and it gets compromised, that can be devastating to cities.
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