“The city is what it is because our citizens are what they are,” said Plato, the Ancient Greek philosopher, almost 2,500 years ago. Today, cities are still shaped by their citizens but as our urban society becomes increasingly digital, who or what the citizens are is becoming less clear. Stolen identities, data beaches, voter fraud, invasions of privacy and the hacking of physical systems in our buildings, cities and grids are rife. By faking human or digital identities and by taking more information than is necessary during digital interactions we have lost track of who we are dealing with and whether we can trust them. The situation is rapidly sprilling, hacks and breaches that would have been record-breaking a decade ago seem to happen on a monthly basis today. As Memoori and many experts in the field have highlighted, we are neglecting these vulnerabilities as we race into this smart future. However, as is often […]