Smart Cities
This smart city is the most populous city in the United States
What is New York?
This tech helps monitor public areas and is often used for safety.
What are surveillance cameras?
Many people fear this personal right is threatened by smart city surveillance.
What is privacy?
Smart city tech can lead to this if data is misused or leaked.
What is a data breach?
Which ethical framework helps balance privacy and security needs?
What is Proportionality?
Smart cities rely on this type of information to make real-time decisions.
What is data?
Smart cities can track people using signals from these devices.
What are smartphones?
What is a significant ethical concern about surveillance in smart cities?
What is citizens not being able to opt out of being analyzed in public
Who typically owns the data collected by smart city surveillance systems?
What is government agencies or private companies?
This kind of group can review smart city ethics policies.
What is an ethics board?
These are used in smart cities to detect air quality, traffic flow, and more.
What are sensors?
This country’s use of facial recognition and data tracking in smart cities is often criticized for being invasive.
What is China?
Which group is often disproportionately affected by surveillance technologies?
What is Marginalized communities?
The idea that not all communities are watched equally refers to this.
What is surveillance bias?
Educating citizens about surveillance is part of this process.
What is public engagement or transparency?
This system in smart cities connects devices like cameras, sensors, and data analytics to improve urban living.
What is the Internet of Things (IoT)?
When systems are used for purposes beyond their original intent
What is 'function creep'?
When AI systems unfairly target or misidentify certain groups
What is 'algorithmic bias'?
Some argue smart city surveillance leads to this feeling among citizens.
What is a loss of freedom or feeling constantly watched?
An act enacted by California to give its citizens more control about the personal information that businesses collect?
What is the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
This advanced tech is often used for identifying individuals in public spaces.
What is facial recognition?
When people behave differently because they believe they might be watched
What is the 'panopticon effect'?
What is a key concern about legislation like the USA PATRIOT Act?
What is law enforcement access to personal records without probable cause
Data used without permission violates this key ethical rule.
What is consent or data transparency?
What is a key industry solution to address surveillance ethics concerns?
Using data encryption to protect collected information