Smart City Gnosys
Smart city article details
| Title | Some Ethical And Technological Challenges Of Smart Cities |
|---|---|
| ID_Doc | 52298 |
| Authors | Field B.G. |
| Year | 2025 |
| Published | Urban, Planning and Transport Research, 13, 1 |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21650020.2025.2498421 |
| Abstract | The term ‘smart city’ is open to many interpretations, but all are underpinned by the idea that use of disruptive digital technologies, supported by copious ingestion of real-time data and analytics, can advantageously help address the challenges posed by rapid and accelerating rates of urbanisation. The smart city is not however a new paradigm, as some commentators would have us believe, but is perhaps better described as an enabler where traditional networked infrastructure and urban services are delivered and monitored more efficiently … the added value lies in how smarter technologies are used rather than the innate qualities of the technologies per se. This essay is a commentary on the smart city concept, it’s evolution and continuing development. It does not masquerade as research, but details how innovative smart technologies can and should be beneficially deployed in urban settings, before interrogating some potentially serious negative ramifications of doing so. Of particular concern are the increasingly surreptitious surveillance implications. The moral dilemma and important ethical questions resulting from the use of big data to scrutinise and profile individuals and communities, compromising their privacy and anonymity without their knowledge or consent, cannot be underestimated and appears beyond the control of prevailing data protection protocols. © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. |
| Author Keywords | artificial intelligence; big data; cities as systems; data protection; digitalisation; smart cities; Urbanisation |
Similar Articles
| Id | Similarity | Authors | Title | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
6395  | 0.911 | Gilman E.; Bugiotti F.; Khalid A.; Mehmood H.; Kostakos P.; Tuovinen L.; Ylipulli J.; Su X.; Ferreira D. | Addressing Data Challenges To Drive The Transformation Of Smart Cities | ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 15, 5 (2024) |
| 56795 | 0.911 | Khurshudov A. | The Smart City Conundrum: Technology, Privacy, And The Quest For Convenience | Smart and Sustainable Built Environment, 14, 4 (2025) |
| 24480 | 0.906 | Clever, S; Crago, T; Polka, A; Al-Jaroodi, J; Mohamed, N | Ethical Analyses Of Smart City Applications | URBAN SCIENCE, 2, 4 (2018) |
| 14407 | 0.905 | Alkhazali A.R.M.; Khasawneh A.M.; Alzoubi S.; Magableh M.; Mohamed R.R.; Pandey B. | Cloud Computing In Smart Cities: Privacy, Ethical And Social Issues | 2023 International Conference on Computer Science and Emerging Technologies, CSET 2023 (2023) |
| 49911 | 0.905 | Ziosi M.; Hewitt B.; Juneja P.; Taddeo M.; Floridi L. | Smart Cities: Reviewing The Debate About Their Ethical Implications | AI and Society, 39, 3 (2024) |
| 19456 | 0.904 | Ahmad K.; Maabreh M.; Ghaly M.; Khan K.; Qadir J.; Al-Fuqaha A. | Developing Future Human-Centered Smart Cities: Critical Analysis Of Smart City Security, Data Management, And Ethical Challenges | Computer Science Review, 43 (2022) |
| 43066 | 0.903 | Momen N. | Privacy And Ethics In A Smart City: Towards Attaining Digital Sovereignty | Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications (2023) |
| 31966 | 0.901 | Birkle C.; Hess C. | Integrating Data Ethics In Smart Cities: Insights From Leading European Cities | Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics (2025) |
| 24486 | 0.9 | Mohtashim M. | Ethical Considerations And Challenges Of Leveraging Iot And Machine Learning In Smart Urban Planning | Leveraging IoT and Machine Learning for Smart Urban Planning (2025) |
| 10387 | 0.899 | Phillips C.; Jiao J. | Artificial Intelligence & Smart City Ethics: A Systematic Review | 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Engineering, Science, and Technology: Ethics in the Global Innovation Helix, ETHICS 2023 (2023) |