Constitutional challenges of smart cities
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smart cities, constitutionalism, privacy, individual rights, comparative lawAbstract
Smart Cities are a new urbanism model that uses information and Communications Technologies to analyze personal to solve municipal administration problems and improve its citizens' lives. However, western constitutional models are based on an analog society, in which face-to-face interactions are the norm and where citizen's information is not fundamental to urbanism models. Particularly, constitutions with strong protections of individual rights have the difficult task of balancing these fundamental rights with a social structure that requires citizens' data. In addition, the private sector role within Smart Cities is no longer limited to providing services, but, depending on the model, also includes administrative tasks usually reserved to the government. This new perspective requires a rethinking of the relationship between state, individual, and corporations.
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