smart city

June 8, 2020

Critical Vulnerability Could Have Allowed Hackers to Disrupt Traffic Lights

A critical vulnerability affecting traffic light controllers made by SWARCO could have been exploited by hackers to disrupt a city’s […]

November 28, 2019

The guidelines outline key principles for using citizen data responsibly. They were developed with and includes real-world examples from several […]

May 13, 2018

Members of the Sidewalk Toronto team echoed the principles of Privacy by Design, the framework of Ryerson University’s expert in […]

March 3, 2018

Sidewalk Labs, the unit of Google parent Alphabet Inc. selected to help transform a parcel of land known as Quayside, […]

March 1, 2018

In Eindhoven, Utrecht and Assen smart projects are tackling everything from traffic to street crime. But with privacy laws being […]

January 20, 2018

Toronto is becoming a test bed for new smart-city technology, but some observers are concerned about the privacy of the […]

December 20, 2017

City officials, law professors and corporate privacy directors discuss the tension between open data work and privacy at the second […]

September 10, 2017

Big data is an expansive umbrella with startups of all stripes squatting under it. Even as the most successful and […]

September 4, 2017

Most smart meter customers do not recall being given any information about how their energy supplier stores consumption data from […]

June 27, 2017

Smart meters can reveal when someone is home – or how long they shower – and standards should be set […]

May 2, 2017

Even in the middle of major city, it’s possible to go off the grid. Last year, theAtlantic profiled a family […]