The Smart Grid brings many benefits – but privacy protection must be built into the design of this new technology before an explosion of personal data erupts, Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, cautioned today in a new white paper. “The overarching privacy concern associated with Smart Grid technology is its ability to…
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Fifteen More Smart Grid Privacy Concerns
By Rebecca Herold (The Privacy Professor) CIPP, CISSP, CISM, CISA, FLMI I’ve had about half a dozen folks ask me how things are going with the work I’m doing with the NIST Smart Grid privacy group, and if I could provide an update since my last couple of posts on the topic here and here….
ACLU report: Enforcing Privacy
The ACLU has released a new report, ENFORCING PRIVACY: Building American Institutions to Protect Privacy in the Face of New Technology and Government Powers. The report was written by Jay Stanley. From the Executive Summary: Privacy laws are of limited value if institutions for enforcing such laws do not exist. The United States, unlike nearly…
Police probe breach of NHS smartcard security as e-records launched in London
Tony Collins reports: An NHS trust at the forefront of work on the £12.7bn NHS IT scheme has called in police after a breach of smartcard security compromised the confidentiality of hundreds of electronic records. Patients in Hull have expressed their dismay that an unauthorised NHS employee has accessed their confidential records; and the local…