William & Mary Law Podcast

This episode kicks off a new podcast series looking at the developing legal landscape surrounding smart city technology. Innovations such as smart homes, smart transportation, autonomous vehicles, and the like have the capacity to take city planning by storm, and upend the way citizens and businesses interact with the communities within which they live and work. This innovation comes with great promises, but also its share of problems. The most often discussed issues are concerns surrounding data and personal privacy, cybersecurity, and liability. Recognizing that there are likely other legal challenges associated with this technology, our research teams plan to introduce discussion that goes beyond these immediate legal questions. In this episode, Buswell Post-Grad Fellow Lindsey Whitlow hosts the Smart Cities Research Team—CLCT Research Fellows Alex Pratt, Ott Lindstrom, and Katherine Sorrell—in giving a broad overview of what smart cities are and how they implicate the law. For resources and additional inf