10. Enhancing Privacy in Smart Cities by Facilitating Communications Between Public and Private Sectors

Smart cities are integrating smart technologies to increase efficiency, safety and confidence in urban life. Gathering, analysing and finding pattern in data are the key building blocks of the smart city concept. In smart cities, sensors can be installed in everywhere from public places to people’s living room. In such a setup, privacy would raise as a major concern. Some technologies were built to maintain the anonymity of the gathered data. However, the requirement and laws that enforce regulations related to privacy are constantly evolving. In such a dynamic ecosystem, keeping track of the latest evolution, as well as consolidating the application of the needed security and privacy requirements would be a quest in public and in private sectors. Hence, those requirements should be well communicated between both aforementioned sectors. This paper presents an approach to manage and facilitate communications between public and private sectors, using a security guidance framework. This Framework can also help to keep a track of the changes in security and privacy requirements.