Title from PDF of title page viewed July 12, 2018Thesis advisor: Baek-Young ChoiVitaIncludes bibliographical references (pages 54-58)Thesis (M.S.)--School of Computing and Engineering. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018The increasing concentration of population around the cities poses challenges in
their operation and services. On the other hand, the current technological revolution allows scalable and innovative means to better serve the public. Many city governments
are collecting, publishing and analyzing more data from diverse sources including IoT
sensors. City government’s open data provides multiple values such as improving transparency of the government, enhancing the efficiency of its operations and services and
attracting more businesses to the region. However, the resulting data systems, called
Open Data Portals (ODPs) become more complicated and create the issues of accessibility, security, and privacy.
Extensive analyses of ODPs of many cities around the world using diverse methodologies have been performed. We find that the extent of openness of data and popularity,
and the level of security of ODPs are highly diverse across the cities. We then provide
the recommendations for improving security measures of ODPs. Considering the privacy
issues of data in ODPs, we provide a tool to automatically filtering Personally Identifiable
Information (PII).Introduction -- Related work -- Smart City Open Data System internetworking -- Smart City Open System security -- Smart City Open Data (SCOD) openness -- Privacy issue analysis -- Conclusion and future work -- Appendix A. Security comparison ranking data for all cities -- Appendix B. Security comparison figures for all citie
