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Smart everything
MVV1368K Privacy and Personal Data
František Kasl
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Structure of the seminar
• 1) Essays
– Basic info + readings
• 2) Topics
– Smart home, still my home?
– Smart city for proper citizens only?
– Privacy by design in smart environments
• 3) Slides
– Title – Question – Discussion - Information
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Essays - Topics
• Essay Deadline: 19 December, 8:00 AM
• approx. 10 500 - 16 000 characters long (+ footnotes) = 5-8 pages
• For further essay requirements see interactive sylabus
• Presentation day (only students with Presentation No. 3): 20 December
• Smart home, still my home?: How ubiquitous sensory data
collection sneaks upon spatial privacy
• Smart city for proper citizens only?: Can we avoid social
discrimination through automated profiling in the public
space?
• Privacy by design and other instruments of the current
European legal framework for personal data protection in
smart environments
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Obligatory readings
• These readings are the prerequisite for the
understanding of the concept of the internet of things
and its potential impact on privacy and data
protection.
– WEBER, Rolf H. Cybersecurity in the Internet of Things:
Legal aspects. Computer Law & Security Review. 2016, Vol.
2016, No. 32. Available (through university computers) at:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S02673
64916301169
– COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT. Advancing the
Internet of Things in Europe. SWD/2016/0110 final. 2016.
Available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-
content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52016SC0110
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Voluntary readings
• These readings provide additional insight into the challenges related to the
various smart environments.
– BARTOLI, A. et al. Security and Privacy in your Smart City. Proceedings of Barcelona Smart
Cities Congress 2011. Available at:
https://smartcitiescouncil.com/sites/default/files/public_resources/Smart%20city%20security.
pdf
– MINERVA, Roberto; BIRU, Abyi; ROTONDI, Domenico. Towards a definition of the Internet of
Things (IoT). IEEE. 2015. Available at:
https://iot.ieee.org/images/files/pdf/IEEE_IoT_Towards_Definition_Internet_of_Things_Revisi
on1_27MAY15.pdf
– EDWARDS, Lilian. Privacy, Security and Data Protection in Smart Cities: A Critical EU Law
Perspective. European Data Protection Law Review. 2016, Vol. 2, No. 1. Available through
university computers) at Heinonline.org
– KASL, František. Cybersecurity of Small and Medium Enterprises in the Era of Internet of
Things. The Lawyer Quarterly, Praha: Institute of State and Law of the Academy of Sciences of
the Czech Republic, 2018, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 165-188. Available (through university computers)
at: https://tlq.ilaw.cas.cz/index.php/tlq/article/view/281/260
– SCHNEIER, Bruce. The Internet of Things That Talk About You Behind Your Back. Motherboard.
2016. Available
at:https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2016/01/the_internet_of_thin_1.html
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Additional readings
• These readings provide broader context and up-to-date examples
of situations, where privacy and personal data protection are
being challenged by smart environments.
– SCHNEIER, Bruce. Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in
a Hyper-connected World. W. W. Norton & Company. 2018, 978-
0393608885, 288 p.
– BENEDIKT, Olesya. The Valuable Citizens of Smart Cities: The Case of
Songdo City. Graduate Journal of Social Science. 2016, Vol. 12, No. 2.
Available at:
http://gjss.org/sites/default/files/issues/chapters/papers/GJSS%20Vol
%2012-2%201%20Benedikt_0.pdf
– COSTA, Luiz. Virtuality and Capabilities in a World of Ambient
Intelligence: New Challenges to Privacy and Data Protection. Law,
Governance and Technology Series, Vol. 32, Springer International
Publishing Switzerland, 2016, ISBN: 978-3-319-39197-7, 199 p.
Available in the university library.
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Smart home, still my home?
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Super quick recap:
By this point in the course, you should know...
• What is privacy and why does it matter?
• What are personal data?
• What is surveillance?
• How do these concepts collide?
• What does technology bring to this mix?
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Future is now
What is Internet of things?
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• Small environment with low complexity scenario
– network that connects uniquely identifiable things to the Internet
– these things can sense and collect / perform activity based on
program/profile
• Large environment with high complexity scenario
– self-configuring, adaptive, complex network that interconnects things
to the Internet
– the things get unique „virtual identities“ and „profiles“
– part of the environment = ambient
– provide services tailored to the user = personalized
– adapt and learn from available data = intelligent
– available anywhere, anytime, and for anything = ubiquitous
• Examples
– Interesting / Curious / Practical / Crazy / Scary / Weird / Unthinkable
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Smart home
What should your house know about you?
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• Smart home
– IoT embedded in home environment
– optimisation, customisation, innovation
– new features for the user = convenience
– new data for the provider = profiling
• Limits of data collection
– protection of spatial privacy X consent?
– protection of personal data X performance of
contract?
– human intimacy / special categories of personal data
– legal X moral X philosophical X practical perspective
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Smart Door Locks Smart Bluetooth Trackers
Smart Home Retrofit Smart Kitchen
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Smart Irrigation Controllers Wireless Home Energy Monitors
Wifi Lighting IoT Cloud Platforms
Specific challenges brought by IoT environment
Is „smart“ always smart?
• Features: ubiquitous profiling, big data mining, machine learning,
M2M communication, possible omnipresence, mesh connectivity...
• Challenges
• A) higher likelyhood, frequency and severity of cyber incidents
– increased data flow complexity
– ‘weaponized IoT devices’ for DDoS attacks or other illicit activities
– increased attack surface - variety creates in combination new
vulnerabilities
– limited security features and posibilities for advanced security
countermeasures
• B) new forms of data breaches, increased frequency, severity and
volume
– data collected - omnipresence of IoT sensors => increased detail of all
aspects of documented activities
– new forms of data, metadata and derived data (by combination of the
collected data)
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Smart city for proper citizens
only?
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Smart city
What changes and challenges can we expect?
• synergy between Internet of Things, Big Data and
Cloud
– model of connected urban environment
– => advanced sustainability
– => improved resilience
– => better urban living
• technology X social X political X economic factors
– A) implementation of ICT solutions
– B) multi-stakeholder socio-economic transformations
of the urban ecosystem
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Road to a smart city
How does city become „smart“?
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• A) built fully anew with integrated smart
architecture
– Songdo – Soul – South Korea
– Makkah project – Saudi Arabia
– Masdar City – United Arab Emirates
• B) transformation of existing neighbourhoods by
a series of projects incorporating smart modules
– Smart Cities Mission – India – 100 cities
– London
– Barcelona
– New York City
Every step you take
How to provide guarantees of privacy?
• smart street surveillance
– X facial recongition + AI + state control (..China..)
• smart traffic
– optimisation + traffic jams X tracking + database
• smart devices for wifi access
– X security / data traffic surveillance
• future hidden dangers?
– social credit system – ranking of the citizens
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Privacy by design in smart
environments
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EU legal toolbox for privacy
Nominal right X practical enforcement?
• GDPR
– accountability + rights of the data subject + principles
– data protection by design / by default
– data breach notification obligation
• ePrivacy directive / regulation
– new players – traditional telecom x new telecom (message apps)
– communication content / metadata / cookies
• Public procurement
– price X quality => security / data protection / integrity / data control
• Cybersecurity
– critical infrastructure / CSIRT (Cyber Security Response Team)
• Product standards and market access control
– CE marking / product safety rules / IoT standards and protocols
– Liability for emerging digital technologies
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Risk assessment in IoT data processing
New environment = new frame of mind?
• new factors
– cyberphysical; indirect interconnection...
– increased frequency, scope, variety
• challenges for unified or comprehensive
classification of risk
– ambiguous terms and fluctuant environment
– risk-based approach missing adequade guidance in
measures and indicators => need for flexible
adaptation to IoT
• need for
– automated reporting and monitoring
– adjustment of risk scales
– broad adoption of adequate methodology
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Thank you for your attention!
Questions?
Ideas?
Answers?
Looking forward to your essays!
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