Smart Cities and Cyber Security Ethical and Anticipated Ethical Concerns

Abstract

Smart cities have already been developed and are beginning to change the nature of urban living. Much of the discussion on smart cities would perhaps be more of a discussion on smart technologies. The technological infrastructure needed to create smart cities is comprised of interlinking the smart technologies at the core of the smart city. This analysis will develop an anticipatory ethical analysis of the technological, social, and ethical issues of smart cities from a cyber security perspective. Anticipatory ethics concerns with the identification of ethical issues in the development of technology at an early stage in order to attempt to mitigate these issues as technology develops. Smart cities are developing, as are the technological systems that operate in them. Anticipatory ethical analysis can help provide the foundation for identifying how malevolent agents could compromise smart cities and how cyber security can be implemented to prevent this.