In an editorial for the Times Colonist, BC Privacy Commissioner Elizabeth Denham writes about her office's collaboration with BC Hydro as it implements the smart grid, which will digitize home energy use. "With an increase in the granularity of information comes an increased potential for abuse," Denham writes, adding that key smart grid privacy and security issues include making sure that information is protected as it moves along the grid; privacy is built in at the earliest stage; customers have access to their own--but no one else's--household energy data, and customer energy information is used only for the purposes it was collected.

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