SmartPrivacy for the Smart Grid describes Smart Grid benefits and explores questions regarding privacy issues. A Privacy Impact Assessment was done by an American task group that found the privacy implications of the smart grid are not fully understood. There is a lack of formal privacy policies, standards or procedures and that the potential exists for personal information to be collected by both utilities and third parties.

SmartPrivacy for the Smart Grid recommends that privacy policy can be built into the smart grid at the conception stage, by making these policies the default in all physical, administrative and technological aspects of the system.