Privacy determines whether new technology is accepted in the home
Thursday, March 27, 2014 - 09:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Three values determine most whether end users and other parties involved accept a smart electricity meter in their home: privacy, active consent for passing on data and the correctness of that data – in this order. For a home energy management system efficiency and ease of use come top of the list. But privacy ranks third place here as well. Researchers from the NWO programme Responsible Innovation discovered this.