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link: 10 Smart Grid Consumer-to-Utility Privacy Concerns; Are There More?

A simple listing of the 10 privacy concerns follows:

1. Identity Theft
2. Determining Personal Behavior Patterns
3. Determining Specific Appliances Used
4. Performing Real-Time Surveillance
5. Revealing Activities Through Residual Data
6. Targeted Home Invasions
7. Providing Accidental Invasions
8. Activity Censorship
9. Decisions and Actions Based Upon Inaccurate Data
10. Revealing Activities When Used With Data From Other Utilities

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