The Smart City Risks: Who Will Control Your Fridge?
CryptoBit News Today1 min read
In smart cities of the future, you may summon an autonomous car for your child with your smartphone - the car, equipped with your son's preferred climate control and fast-food suggestions based on learned habits, drives to his location and to your home, where systems would reduce the need for constant air conditioning.
For example, Supreme Court rulings on government GPS surveillance should be examined to help anticipate future privacy concerns surrounding the technology's critical role in smart city transportation.
Unsecured connected devices are scary.
Such devices can serve as creepy surveillance tools, as a smart TV includes an internet-connected camera and microphone that could be compromised by a hacker. As mobile technology becomes faster and cheaper, devices will connect to the internet directly through cellular networks rather than through an owner's Wi-Fi. But they will bypass those WiFi networks. 6G is soon coming. All the answers will only last briefly."
