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==== Data privacy ====
''Privacy'' is generally associated with collection, ownership, access control, integrity control, distribution, modifications, repurposing, reconstruction, and disposition of personally identifiable information (PII), relating to both individuals and organizations. Definitions of privacy vary across jurisdictions. New smart grid technologies and applications like [[smart meters]], smart appliances, or customer energy management systems (EMSs) will create new privacy risks and concerns in unexpected ways. ''Recognising electric signatures'' of smart appliances and ''developing detailed, time-stamped activity reports'' by utilities or third-party service providers for efficiency analysis also reveals lifestyle details that could be legitimately characterized as PII in most jurisdictions. <ref name="3o"/>
<br/>Thus, many concerns have been raised over the ability of commercial actors to identify customer patterns of energy usage and as the successful roll-out of smart grids will also depend on public acceptance, adequate protection is crucial.
<br/>At the same time, as new capabilities are added [smart grid]s, potential new privacy concerns will emerge for which no legal mitigation currently exists. Hence, measures like privacy impact assessments need to be carried out for various smart grid use cases.
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==== Security and cybersecutiry ====
Security programs typically focus on protection of human life, safety, and tangible and intangible assets. With a system that handles power generation, transmission, and distribution, security responsibility extends beyond the traditional walls of the data center. Two major components of smart grid security are cyber security and physical security. Physical security mechanisms protect people, data, equipment, systems, facilities, and many other assets. <ref name="3o"/>