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Review of Privacy Preservation with Blockchain Technology in the Context of Smart Cities

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Sustainable Smart Cities and Territories (SSCTIC 2021)

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Blockchain technology has credit for empowering smart cities. Due to the generation of huge amounts of data for direct transactions between devices, blockchain technology, by definition, must be used in this type of context. Although, due to the use of large amounts of multidimensional data, exists a risk that users’ privacy may be violated. This privacy issue turns out to be of paramount importance, especially with new privacy regulations, like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), that legalizes the requirement to protect the privacy of personal information. This work contributes with a review of the current state of the art in the context of blockchain-based smart cities and how it is managed the privacy-preserving issue.

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The research of Yeray Mezquita is supported by a pre-doctoral fellowship granted by University of Salamanca and cofinanced by Banco Santander. Besides, this work has been supported too by the project “XAI - XAI - Sistemas Inteligentes Auto Explicativos creados con Módulos de Mezcla de Expertos”, ID SA082P20, financed by Junta Castilla y León, Consejería de Educación, and FEDER funds.

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    Yeray Mezquita, Alfonso González-Briones, Roberto Casado-Vara, Fernando de la Prieta & Ana-Belén Gil-González

  2. Research Group on Agent-Based, Social and Interdisciplinary Applications (GRASIA), Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Alfonso González-Briones

  3. Department of Marketing and Management, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230, Odense M, Denmark

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Mezquita, Y., González-Briones, A., Casado-Vara, R., Wolf, P., de la Prieta, F., Gil-González, AB. (2022). Review of Privacy Preservation with Blockchain Technology in the Context of Smart Cities. In: Corchado, J.M., Trabelsi, S. (eds) Sustainable Smart Cities and Territories. SSCTIC 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 253. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78901-5_7

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