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Privacy Perspective Protecting the Grid and Consumer Data: Cyber Security and Privacy

Privacy Perspective Protecting the Grid and Consumer Data: Cyber Security and Privacy. Lillie Coney Associate Director Electronic Privacy Information Center. Privacy Rights Under Pressure.

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Privacy Perspective Protecting the Grid and Consumer Data: Cyber Security and Privacy

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  1. Privacy PerspectiveProtecting the Grid and Consumer Data: Cyber Security and Privacy Lillie Coney Associate Director Electronic Privacy Information Center

  2. Privacy Rights Under Pressure • Innovations in technology: photography, audio recording, motion pictures, computers, telecommunications, digital data, networking of databases • New business and government practices • Record keeping, collection and use of personal information, data mining, networking of informational data on persons

  3. What is Privacy? • Constitutionally Protected Rights • US Constitution: First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, and Fifth Amendment; United Nations Declaration of Human Rights Article 12 • It is the ability to control over who, when, why, and how personal information may be accessed or used by others • It is also an intangible property right • It is enforced by Fair Information Practices found in Federal, State, and International Law • Federal Privacy Act • OECD Privacy Guidelines • Canadian Privacy Act

  4. Smart Grid and Privacy • Smart Grid • Will trigger reflection on use of data collected, legal limitations, regulations, and public debate about privacy • May expose information once only known by those within a home or business to others • Cause struggles over control of Smart Grid electricity consumption information • Can Smart Grid information threaten privacy rights? YES!

  5. Cyber Security and Privacy • Smart Grid design can either protect or fail to protect privacy and security • Privacy rights must be defined by the full complement of Fair Information Practices • How Cyber Security is defined will determine the degree to which electricity consumers may control who, when, why, and how someone may have access to information. • Defining cyber security • Defining cyber security threats • Establishing due process protocols within utilities and Smart Grid service providers routine business operations

  6. Transparency is Key to Customer Trust in the Grid • Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman. Louis Brandeis, Harper's Weekly, Dec 20 1913 • Customers must have more than notice and choice • Customers should be empowered to make decisions about electricity consumption management options • Customers must have real redress options if their personal information or electricity consumption information is abused or misused • Law-enforcement Access must be restricted to court managed processes. (No secret courts or national security letters)

  7. Smart Grid Fair Information Practices • Data collection limitations • Data use limitations • Data must be protected by information holders • Data holders must comply with privacy principle guidelines • Data subject must have access to information on who has had access to their information • Correction, due process adjudication, confirm accuracy, and use agreement

  8. EPIC.org • Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) http://epic.org/

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