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Challenges of Smart Cities

1. Limited privacy: The citizens will have difficulty maintaining their privacy because the authorities or the government will have access to security cameras and intelligent systems connected through many different spaces. The idea of privacy or personal space will be drastically altered by facial recognition technology and similar technologies. Physical data vaults, resilient authentication management, and ID solutions must be put in place in order to manage the security of smart cities. Citizens must have confidence in the security of smart cities, which requires collaboration between the public and private sectors, as well as software and device manufacturers, energy suppliers, and network service managers, to deliver integrated solutions that meet fundamental security goals. These core security objectives can be broken down as follows:

A. Availability: Data needs to be accessible in real-time and in a reliable way for it to do its job of keeping track of the different parts of a smart city's infrastructure.
B. Integrity: Not only must the data be easy to find, but it also needs to be correct. This also means making sure that you can't be manipulated from the outside.
C. Privacy: Sensitive information needs to be kept private and safe from people who shouldn't have access to it. This could mean using firewalls or making data anonymous.
D. Accountability: People who use sensitive data systems need to take responsibility for what they do and how they use them. Logs of who is accessing the information should be kept so that people can be held accountable if something goes wrong.

2. Social control: The people who can track and centralize the data they gather with security cameras will have greater power. It can be a government, a private agency, or other authorities. They will have the power to control a citizen's data and can easily manipulate public opinions.

3. Excess network trust: Since the citizen of these smart cities will rely almost entirely on electronics and networks, they will lose autonomy in their decision-making and could become incompetent. They would not be able to react appropriately in a scenario where these tools are not usable.

4. Pre-training is required: If the people of the city don't know about technology, then they will not be able to use it. Without training, they will find it irrelevant to their daily lives and will find it difficult to utilize it.