The Internet of Things and the Smart City: Legal challenges with digital forensics, privacy, and security

Abstract

The explosive growth of information and communications technologies (ICTs) as manifested in Smart Cities and the Internet of Things (IoT) creates more and more computable data with myriad benefits. They also produce ever more digital evidence of people's lives in all contexts, with commensurately greater potential risks to the safety and rights of citizens. Digital/computational forensics and analytics, used to combat crime, are the vanguard of the collision of these with public policy as to privacy and personal autonomy. They bring the evidentiary fruits of this technology directly to the policymaker, police investigator, and the judge. And to the marketer, stalker, and extortionist. We examine this technical‐legal interaction and how it might inform as to privacy and security with the IoT and the Smart City.