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Is Your Electricity Meter Spying On You?

Posted by samzenpus on from the unseen-mechanized-eye dept.

lee1 writes "If you have a 'smart meter,' it is collecting data that can reveal when you wake up, when you leave for work and come home, when you go on vacation and when you take a shower. This data is commercially valuable and, if sold to third parties, can lead to privacy invasion on a massive scale. The California Public Utility Commission is reacting to the gas and electric company's mass installation of these meters with new proposals for strong privacy protections."

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  1. But.... by Haffner · · Score: 5, Funny

    These are what keep us SAFE because it lets power companies notify law enforcement when our neighbors are growing marijuana! We NEED these to keep us SAFE!

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    1. Re:But.... by whovian · · Score: 3, Funny

      One man's 600 W marijuana farm is another man's compute cluster.

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    2. Re:But.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      LEDs my friend, LEDs ;)

    3. Re:But.... by XxtraLarGe · · Score: 4, Funny

      Leaving ordinary people unable to afford to flush their toilets, and rich people with lush, green lawns.

      The market doesn't solve problems like this very well, contrary to what people seem to believe.

      The solution is to have ordinary people deficate/urinate on rich peoples' lawns.

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  2. Re:yea and my toaster by ColdWetDog · · Score: 3, Funny

    is signalling the CIA

    We told you not to go and load Debian on it, but would you listen? No, of course not.

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