No successful innovation project is implemented without a well-structured legal framework. Smart city projects are not away from this statement. An efficient legal structure promotes legal certainty, enables SSC projects to overcome barriers, and reassures their smooth implementation.

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Prof. Marco Peres from Externado of Colombia University will introduce the legal and contractual aspects of the planning and management of smart and sustainable cities.

Four main topics are discussed in this lecture:

• The regulatory challenges of Smart Cities to promote legal certainty and boost the application of ICT innovation;
• The legal risks in SSC involving information security, privacy, and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ;
• The legal protection in SSC and the legal principles related;
• The technological protection of privacy in Smart Cities and the concepts of “Privacy by Design” and “Privacy by Default.”

Main Takeaways

• The most important legal challenge facing smart cities is to protect the privacy of citizens’ information in a technological and legal trust framework that allows the design of technologies that effectively protect data and successfully face cyber-attacks on the IT infrastructure of cities.
• The legal principles that can be implemented in cities to protect the privacy and personal data of citizens are: to balance the design of smart technologies between the operation of the service and the rights of the user; obtain people’s consent to change the predetermine settings of the system and ensure the anonymity of the data owner when aggregating data.