SPECTRE Project

SPECTRE stands for ‘Smart city Privacy: Enhancing Collaborative Transparency in the Regulatory Ecosystem’. The project involves the collaboration of two Belgian universities (@KULeuven and the @Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and various stakeholders. SPECTRE deals with the privacy implications brought by the development of smart cities. It looks at these challenges through the lens of the disciplines of law, social science and economics. The main focus of the project is to develop a collaborative Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) method for smart cities, which will take into consideration cities’ socio-economic interests. We will explore the potential of using public procurement rules to incorporate this new method of DPIA to effectively deal with the privacy impacts of smart cities.