Privacy Harm Analysis: A Case Study on Smart Grids

Abstract

To carry out a true privacy risk analysis and go beyond a traditional security analysis, it is essential to distinguish the notions of feared events and their impacts, called "privacy harms" here, and to establish a link between them. In this paper, we provide a clear relationship among harms, feared events, privacy weaknesses and risk sources and describe their use in the analysis of smart grid systems. This work also lays the foundation for a more systematic and rigorous approach to privacy risk assessment.