A smart city is, inherently, a surveillance city, and citizens’ privacy could potentially be the cost of the efficiency gains.
Could it be worth the trade-off?
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Maybe privacy invasion ain’t so bad…
Is this a necessarily bad thing? Attitudes to an individual’s privacy differ from place to place. Libertarians will instinctively think that mass surveillance is a bad thing. Security-focused people will say that increased surveillance is necessary to combat terrorism. The police would support it as being helpful in their work. And so it goes.
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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/07/smart_cities_are_surveillance_cities/
