Empowering Smart Cities with Strong Cryptography for Data Privacy
Greg Stromire, Isaac Potoczny-Jones · 2018
The transformative promise of Smart Cities relies largely on the collection and innovative analysis of data produced by and about its citizens. As more insights are gained from such analysis, its impacts are difficult to predict. Care must be taken to ensure data is transmitted and stored using privacy-protecting methods. Traditional strategies of access control are necessary but insufficient as major security breaches are becoming more commonplace. Attempts to strip data sets of personally identifiable information may appear to protect privacy, but de-anonymization techniques using statistical analysis can uniquely identify a person from surprisingly little information. Strong cryptography, when implemented correctly, can provide these protections.