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

4. 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

5. 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!

6. 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

7. 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)

8. 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

9. EPIC.org  Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) http://epic.org/