The Social Construction of Personal Data Protection in Smart Cities

Breuer, Jonas; Zeeland, Ine van; Pierson, Jo; Heyman, Rob

doi:10.1109/ctte-fitce.2019.8894823

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“…Decision-making is carried out by actors who enact them under influences that may be political, socio-cultural to varied degrees, and often not aligned. This observation, highlighted in other studies (e.g., Mora and Deakin, 2019;Breuer et al, 2019) is crucial for further understanding CDT delivery using the SCOT approach.…”

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“…The arguments presented in this paper are based on a critical engagement with literature on CDTs within the broader study of smart cities through the lens of the SCOT approach. Thus, the conceptualisation put forward draws on established seminal (e.g., Pinch and Bijker, 1984;Fulk, 1993;Bijker, 1995Bijker, , 2001Orlikowski, 2009;Bijker et al, 2012) and coeval studies (e.g., Leonardi and Barley, 2010;Surry and Baker, 2016;Breuer et al, 2019;Oti-Sarpong and Leiringer, 2021) that have demonstrated the utility of SCOT as a suitable approach for the study of technological innovations more comprehensively. As a position paper, the conceptualization of CDTs and arguments presented here are meant to direct attention in the emerging sociotechnical literature in smart city studies to adopt network approaches that will help examine the intricate relationships involving actors, technical artefacts and contextual elements which characterize city-scale technological innovations.…”

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“…The SCOT approach is distinctive in use for empirically investigating interactions between people, technology, and context-specific factors. The approach has been useful in unpacking the multi-faceted interactions involving humans, technical artefacts and contextual factors as part of developing and using technology in society (Surry and Baker, 2016), for infrastructure projects (Oti-Sarpong and Leiringer, 2021), and for highlighting the interdependent and conflicting interests that shape ICT-related personal data protection in smart cities (Breuer et al, 2019). We draw inspiration from the SCOT approach in critically synthesizing and discussing literature on CDTs.…”

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Abstract. This paper presents a novel conceptualisation for how city-scale digital twins (CDTs) can be better understood through the social construction of technology (SCOT) lens. This is achieved by drawing inspiration from sociotechnical studies of CDTs, and specifically the SCOT approach. Following a discussion of the shortcomings of technocentrism and techno-optimism bias in the CDT literature, a sociotechnical understanding of their delivery (i.e., conceptualisation, design, development, and implementation) is put forward. Delivering CDTs entails interactions between multiple stakeholders across sectoral boundaries and involve a confluence of business, social and technological dimensions which will engender several multifaceted and evolving complexities. Using the SCOT approach, the paper highlights how a CDT is not a static technical artefact, but rather a transient outcome from a technological network which co-evolves with the actors involved and the goals set in a place. Implications for understanding how an iterative approach for CDT development emerges in a place as part of city smartification agenda, the role of contextual factors in the social shaping of CDTs, actor participation and (ex/in)clusion are identified and discussed as potential future research directions to expand existing knowledge.

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“…All the more explicitly, the author's motivation is to understand the definition and connections of smart administration and ideas, for example, smart e-government with regards to smart urban communities. Breuer et al [150] applied a social constructivist approach to developing personal data protection in smart city planning, arguing that personal data protection in smart cities is at the "explanatory flexibility" stage. The concept suggests different meanings.…”

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Smart City has been an emerging research domain for Government, Businesses, and researchers in the last few years. The Indian government is also interested and investing lots of funds to develop smart cities. These cities are technology-based and require interdisciplinary research and development for successful implementation. Over the last few decades, various technological interventions have created a tendency to provide smart everyday objects to make human life more comfortable. The emergence of the smart city paradigm is a response to creating a future city that guarantees the well-being and rights of its citizens from the perspective of industrial development: industry, urban planning, environment, and sustainable development. There are several subdomains in the smart city for the research. To work with the different subdomains in a smart city, proper guidance about the background of the smart city is required. This research paper is a guide for the same. This research paper represents a systematic literature review of the smart city domain. This paper carries out a systematic review of research papers published in various well-reputed journals like IEEE, Springer, Elsevier, etc., between 2011 and. This paper will help the government, businesses, and researchers aiming to enhance the smart city concept. Initially, this paper discusses the origin and emergence of this concept, followed by a few definitions and characteristics with the real roadmap and primary supporting pillars of the smart city. This paper discusses a typical architecture having different layers like Sensing, Transportation, Data Management, and Application Layers. There are various supporting technologies and platforms for the smart city; hence implementations are impossible without these technologies and media. This research paper discusses different components of the smart city. A broad literature survey is being done to observe various challenges, opportunities, and future trends in the smart city. This research paper can guide the researchers and provide the research direction in the smart city domain.

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“…It frames artefacts as a medium for that struggle. Data protection in the context of the smart city is in a state of 'interpretative flexibility': semantic variations, or different interpretations, exist and groups compete to convince others (Breuer et al, 2019). The GDPR is translated towards particular interpretations (templates, procedures, information notices etc.)…”

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Smart city urban development seems inevitable for the future of our cities, but who should decide what that future should be like and whose interest's smart urbanism serves? The 'Right to the City' calls for citizens as 'users' of cities to be integral parts to the socio-technological processes that shape urban space. This article explores how citizens can participate meaningfully, and whether data protection rights can be instrumental to this objective. It does so by analysing several smart city projects in Belgium and the Netherlands that were affected by the GDPR. The findings illustrate that data protection impacts smart city developments, but meaningful influence of citizens, as in the Right to the City, remains very limited. The article argues that already dominant actors and decision-makers remain in control of 'smart' urban developments, while citizens often lack awareness and data literacy. We suggest that participatory methods for citymaking are valuable if they bring about small, incremental changes and that researchers can play an active role in lowering barriers to meaningful participation in practice.

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The Social Construction of Personal Data Protection in Smart Cities

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