Ontario Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian today released a study on an Ontario utility's approach to smart meter deployment, which she says should serve as the model for all future smart grid investment, The Globe and Mail reports. Released at a California event, Operationalizing Privacy by Design: The Ontario Smart Grid Case Study is the third in a suite of papers on smart grid deployment. It describes the utility's policy to only include customer identification information in the company's own billing records and not share it with third parties unless consent is acquired for service offers. "Smart grid technologies have the potential to collect extremely detailed information about energy consumption in the home, which can lead to the unwelcome profiling of individuals," Cavoukian said.
Full Story