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Privacy by Design: Achieving the Gold Standard in Data Protection for the Smart Grid

May 31, 2010

Information and Privacy Commissioner, Ontario, Canada

Ann Cavoukian, Ph.D.

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The purpose of this paper is to put forward Privacy by Design (the Gold Standard for data protection) as the standard to be adopted for Smart Grid implementation, in order to protect data privacy.

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