Description | Smart grid technologies promise a wealth of benefits but also raise important personal privacy issues. As a result, stakeholders are assessing how to balance protecting consumers’ privacy expectations and control over the dissemination of personally identifiable information with the need of utilities and authorized third parties to have access to this data. This article, from Dow Lohnes PLLC attorney Michael Pryor, discusses the proposal to model smart grid privacy and data dissemination on the protections afforded to customer proprietary network information ("CPNI") generated by users of telecommunications services as set forth in the Communications Act and the FCC. |
