Privacy Regulations, Smart Roads, Blockchain, and Liability Insurance: Putting Technologies to Work

Smart streets promise widely available traffic information to help improve people's safety. Unfortunately, gathering that data may threaten privacy. We describe an architecture that exploits a blockchain and the Internet of Vehicles and show its compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation.

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Smart streets utilize blockchain and the Internet of Vehicles to provide traffic information for safety improvement, but may pose privacy threats, thus compliance with relevant data protection regulations is necessary.