Age of Big Data and Smart Cities: Privacy Trade-Off
Kaoutar Ben Ahmed, Mohammed Bouhorma, Mohamed Ben Ahmed

TL;DR
This paper discusses the rapid growth of big data and smart cities, highlighting their potential benefits and the significant privacy risks they pose to individuals and society.
Contribution
It provides an overview of big data analytics and smart cities, forecasting their future impact and discussing privacy concerns and potential misuse.
Findings
Huge data growth is transforming urban living and services.
Smart cities rely on extensive data collection and analysis.
Privacy risks increase with data-driven smart city technologies.
Abstract
Data will soon become one of the most precious treasures we have ever had, 43 trillion gigabytes of data will be created by 2020 according to a study made by Mckinsey Global Institute, it is estimated that 2.3 trillion gigabytes of data is created each day and most companies in the US have 100.000 gigabytes of data stored. Data is recorded, stored and analyzed to enable technology and services that the world relies on every day, this technology is getting smarter and we will be soon living in a world of smart services or what is called smart cities. This article presents an overview of the topic pointing to its actual status and forecasting the crucial roles it will play in the future, we will define big data analytics and smart cities and talk about their potential contributions in changing our way of living and finally we will discuss the possible down side of this upcoming…
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