Electricity Authority urged to test privacy status of meter data

Electricity Authority urged to test privacy status of meter data
Gavin Evans
By Gavin Evans June 18 (BusinessDesk) - The Electricity Authority has been urged to clarify the status of consumers’ meter data under the Privacy Act and how third-parties should be given access to it. The regulator wants to streamline access to consumers’ historic usage data to speed up the process and lower costs for all parties. Among a collection of “quick” changes it proposed was establishment of an automated tool to communicate a customer’s authorisation of a third-party agent – such as a budget advisor, a switching agent, or an ene...

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