Preventing Surveillance Cities: Developing a Set of Fundamental Privacy Provisions
Type
Policy Brief or Report
Year
2019
Level
City or Town, State
State(s)
All States
Policy Areas
Data & Technology, Public Safety
This report explores five privacy provisions to mitigate the harms associated with exploiting smart city-data. The policy proposals include differentiating personally identifiable smart city data from de-identified data, creating a warrant requirement for personally identifiable smart city data, limiting the sharing of personally identifiable information collected by smart city sensors, adopting data minimization requirements, and introducing private and public enforcement mechanisms. Taken together, these provisions can lay the foundation for creating a robust, privacy-protective response to the threats posed by unregulated access to smart city-data. In order to prevent the emergence of surveillance cities, the report urges states and local governments to implement these fundamental privacy provisions in their specific jurisdictions.